On 1/3/08, raleigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and he notes -
>
> The only practice I can recall for freight car placement in a train
> was the use of a box car behind the tender when the train was a solid
> string of tank cars. This was (also if I recall) due to tracking problems.
Don't know if they still do it, but a car would be placed ahead of
special dangerous cars such as sulphuric acid tanks. And way back
when... ahead of the caboose
Check some of the rail mags to see if they do that for Ethenol traffic.
>
> On a model railroad, brass or other heavily weighted cars may pose a
> problem if the lighter cars are spotted ahead of them but that's not
> a prototypical dilemma.
Many years ago the NS placed an empty 85' flat at the head of a
(transfer) train. Unfortunately that train needed to take a 'loop
track' and when they started up, all they did was pop the car on the
ground.
The locos stayed on track but blocked the grade crossing.
KG
>
> Raleigh in 'Deep-Freeze' Maine
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