Re: Eight wheel Caboose on C&Sng?

Posted by Rick Steele on
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Robert,

The hose that you mention is a back up hose, It is popularly called a Monkey Tail. These hoses usually have a high pitched air whistle and a dump valve. The main purpose for these hoses is so that a Brakeman or Conductor, while the train is backing up, can warn unwary pedestrians, drivers, animals, etc. that the train is close.

The dump valve is used to dump the air in the air line and cause an emergency application of the train brakes should the occasion arise. Some old head Queens and Ground Pounders were so good with those dump valves that they could set up the air just like the Hogger would do it, except from the rear end of the train.

Rick