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Hi, <br />I am a lifelong railroading fan, but I have limited opportunity to observe real railroad operations in order to apply them to my modeling. I am particularly interested in switching, yard operations, and branch lines. Where could I learn more about them. I read a posting in this forum by a retired railroader who described doing setouts and coupling and uncoupling freight cars. I was completely fascinated by it! <br />I am looking for the most basic knowledge. For instance, I don't know how they sort a train to get the locos to the front and the caboose to the rear... I really get baffled by how the locos and caboose always seem to be pointing in the correct direction! <br />I know that double headed trains usually have the locos pointing in opposite directions for this reason, but how do they get them to the right end of the train? <br />This post is probably silly, but I bet a lot of guys would love to know more about how trains are handled and switched.
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