06-10-2010, 09:35 AM
The switching thread has led me to another question:
My layout is of a freelanced 1979 shortline industrial railroad. So would this railroad typically use cabooses on its switching journeys?
I sometimes hear of cabooses being used as "shoving platforms". For example, the BNSF still uses an old ATSF caboose in the Mykawa yard near where I work, I see it every week. How and when would that "shoving platform" be needed?
My layout is of a freelanced 1979 shortline industrial railroad. So would this railroad typically use cabooses on its switching journeys?
I sometimes hear of cabooses being used as "shoving platforms". For example, the BNSF still uses an old ATSF caboose in the Mykawa yard near where I work, I see it every week. How and when would that "shoving platform" be needed?
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