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I worked at a distillery, were I loaded feed into covered hoppers. We had room for about 6 cars behind the shute and only 3 cars in front after being loaded. Though we were at the end of the plant, we technically blocked the switch to our lead. We used a "donkey" type pulley, a large motor with a barge winch, and barge rope, with a hook on the end. It was tough at times moving 2 loaded and one emtpy, snapped the rope may of times. They eventually got a lod trackmobile, but we used the rope more then not, as the trackmobile was operated by the formans kid, and getting him to move stuff when we needed just didn't happen. RR's must have trained him. Once in a great while Conrail would move our cars, that was the fun part.
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