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<p>On Sunday, whilst I was at Taylor, TX, I noticed a crew was switching cars in what appeared to be a process of making up a couple of trains. The engineer would pull forward until he was clear of the switch for the track that he wanted to place car. Then he would back-up rather quickly, make a brake application, and the cars that were to be cutoff would do so and coast into place. On several occasions the cars coupled with the intended cars with a hefty bang.</p> <p>What would happen to the engineer or person working the back of the train if the engineer shoved the cars too hard, and they derailed when they hit the couplers on the stationary cars?</p>
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