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Hi, I made the apparently confusing comments about doubling and hogging. I was responding to a question about snow plows. Doubling is,indeed, cutting the train in two or ,heaven forbid more pieces, to make a hill. Hogging is slang for hoglaw witch means, as earlier stated, exceeding the hours of service law. <br />Doubling isn't standard procedure here but usually the result of something gone wrong. In this particular case we were made up to go south with enough power for the ruling grade but the genius in the yard office didn't account for the 20" of snow that had just fallen. I couldn't even make it out of the yard and requested permission to reduce (shorten our train) but was denied. "We'll get the switcher to push you out". was his reply. "That's great" I said "we might as well keep him all night 'cause if I can't get out of the yard I sure as h*ll aint making the hills!!" <br />"Do what you can. Just get that traffic out of here." Was all he said. <br />Result. We tripled one hill and doubled the other and "hogged" half way to our final terminal. What a night! Sorry for the confusion. Slofr8.
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