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I was working a hump job years ago. The first job of the morning, we went down into the yard and coupled to a track to switch. The conductor got off the engine and started back, but something was wrong. There was water standing over the rails several cars away, and a low hanging fog over it. But there hadn't been any rain, and the air smelled kind of sweet. He went back just enough to see what it was, and we skeedadled. The last move of the night switcher was to drop a car into that other track. They didn't watch it, and when it hit, it climbed up over the coupler of a dangerous tank. The result was a drawhead buried in the end of a tank of acid. MAN! I've never seen the environmental gestapo jump so fast...they came out of nowhere right now! Needless to say, the night crew got a nasty phone call to disturb their sleep....{It could have been much worse, but the limestone ballast actually neutralized a lot of the acid.} BTW, I think this was before shelf couplers, so when, about 1911?
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