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QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar ....What am I missing.....Didn't it used to be against operations {regulations}, to push a passenger train....and wasn't that the practice before that was a regulation....Simply pushing several passenger cars with the engineer in the pushing engine...?? And then when push / pull operation came along were regulations changed to permit that to happen.....I can remember wondering how that was being done legally.... I realize passenger trains were pushed upgrade with an engine{s}, on front too such as up around Horseshoe, etc....but I'm speaking of the condition I mention above.
Quentin
QUOTE: Originally posted by Brydle An experiment If you have a model railroad. First pull a string of cars from the head end and see how easy they follow. Then pu***he same cars from the rear. end.. You may find that pushing is like trying to shove a piece of string forward. The forces are very different, In pushing, each car wants to go in the opposite direction. The potential for derailing is much greater in push mode than in pull mode.
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