[modeleng] Re: Chinnor
- From: "Dave Beaman" <davebeaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:19:49 +0100
You got ex convicts from Poland too Tel? I didn't know they deported them
from there!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Lane" <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 9:52 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Chinnor
And in Oz, a person from Poland who works in the marshalling yard.
> Jesse,
>
> A shunting pole in the UK is something like a boathook - about 1 1/2"
> diameter and four or five feet long with a suitable hook on the end to
> manipulate the chain. Poling sockets in the US were to allow a loco on an
> adjacent road to move a truck by leaning on the end of a much more
> substantial pole. At least, thats what I believe to be the case.
>
> Yet another example of our "common" language!
>
> Cheers,
>
> JohnP
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 8:56 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Chinnor
>
>
> Shunting Poles were outlawed over here many years ago and now the new cars
> don't even have poling sockets anymore. One dangerous thing that was and
> probably still is being done is the flying switch. A car (wagon) being
> towed needs to go into a side track so the locomotive starts pulling the
car
> at a walking pace toward a facing switch and the switchman pulls the cut
> lever. At that instant, the locomotive accelerates past the switch
leaving
> the rolling car behind and the switchman who has hopefully had time to
run
> ahead, throws the switch so the car is diverted into the side track.
> Procedure is frowned on by railroads due to possibility of derailment if
the
> switch is not thrown all the way before the rolling car reaches it. This
> type flying switch would not be possible with the system used in England
and
> you are better off for not being able to do it!
>
> Jesse in Tennessee
>
> To watch an experienced shunter with a shunting pole is a pleasure. I was
> taught how to use one by an old hand and it is easier than it looks...
with
> practice... lots of it!!!!! That's the way hump yards were mostly done,
the
> couplings were 3 link and the trains were not fully fitted. A days
shunting
> on the svr for demonstration is hard work, haven't used a pole in years
and
> would probably kill me now at my age, can still do it for the odd wagon
> though.
>
> Dave.
>
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