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Tim, hopefully they are not running along side too far. Actually, if the slack between the cars is in as in shoving, the uncoupling pin will lift when the lever is raised, allowing the knuckle to open. When the engineer lets off the throttle, the cars uncouple and roll away. Some railroaders also call this drilling. You see this most commonly in flat yard switching. When the uncoupling lever has been lifted and the brakeman wants the cars to be released, he or she will tell the engineer to "kick 'em". <br />We once had a yard engineer named Whorley. The brakeman would say "Kick 'em, Whorley". Occasionally he'd get it backwards and say "Whirl 'em, Kickey". <br />The air hoses do not have to be uncoupled but the train line has to have been bled, in other words, no air in the train line. That would be similar to what Ed described earlier with his 140+ car cut with no air. That must have been a mother dog to handle. <br />Regards and have a safe day. gdc
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