Re: Case of the Missing Truss Rods - Revisited

Posted by Chris Walker on
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Jim, after signalling the Ease-up or Kick off to the Enginedriver, the man takes a hold of the grabiron with his righthand, butting his arse up against the car behind him, and leans in to lift the Hook(in our case) or the Pin in yours.  As the slack punches in, he walks with the movement, the firm grip of that Grab is what stops him from being levered inwards by the lefthand grip on the Hook or Pin.  Now when almost on the end of a long rake and the throttle man was rough, it got a little unnerving sometimes when the whole rake lept forwards with a resounding crash.  All in a Nights(or Days) work.

As you were used to pin lifter bars on the outer car edge I guess you'd be a little Hook shy, that is unless you did your Railroading in L&P days.