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As has been said, kicking cars is not against the rules and is a standard practice. On most railroads operating under NORAC and GCOR, dropping cars is against the rules. <br /> <br />I have seen and used the method of riding cars back, although rarely. This is because on my district our yards are all quite small (8 tracks or less) and we have quite a few nasty little grades in our yards meaning cars get a nasty habit of rolling out at you if you don't give them enough of a kick. Given this background we usually don't ride. Kicking cars is not permitted in one yard and in the others we usually set a car in for the block with a good handbrake, before bleeding the cut and kicking in the rest. This works well as we usually only switch five blocks at a time. It also saves us the potential embarassment of having one get away. <br /> <br />LC
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