poling pockets

[MR SPOCK]

[align=center]After being busy today , I reaslised that there was no way my switcher could run around the boxcars,

then I did what the real switchers did, and used the pole pockets, it workedI need to make brackets for the pole now, no jokes please!

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[Phil]

Very good like it!1

 

[Richie]

Looks great Pete always wondered what those round sockets were for on freight cars now i know they say you learn something new each day

 

[CoggesRailway]

Did they really do that!? how interesting...

 

[KeithT]

Did they really do that!? how interesting...

I never knew that!
Pulling a line of stock on a parallel track using a cable was done right from the earliest days of steam powered railways.
I understand that it was how Huskisson was killed at the Rainhill trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Apparently he stood clear of one track but was hit by the train on the parallel one.

 

[MR SPOCK]

I heard about 'fly' shunting in the UK but never seen it done, but poling was common from the early days, saved having to lay a runaround track, works best on parrallel roads I noticed that on my locos the pockets are molded at a strange angle now I see why, also solves the old shunting puzzle ​

 

[bobg]

[align=center]I heard about 'fly' shunting in the UK but never seen it done, but poling was common from the early days, saved having to lay a runaround track, works best on parrallel roads I noticed that on my locos the pockets are molded at a strange angle now I see why, also solves the old shunting puzzle [/align]

Another way was "Hump" shnting. The train was pushed/pulled to the top of the hump and the cars released one or two at a time and the yard signalman then directed the rolling car onto the correct track.

 

[Glengrant]

I knew this rang a bell, so I go into the photo archives, not terribly well illustrated here, but this is Cuba 1998 where they are poling sugar cane wagons. Of course, the Cubans, with their complete disdain for elfandsafety just used a wire, any old bit of wire would do, and it snapped a few times so you had a lethal snake of uncontrollable wire whipping around. Life is cheap there. The loco 1415 is a 1929 Vulcan of Wilkes Barre built 1929

 

[spike]

Because the poles could easily break some railroads had poling cars.
You could in theory work three tracks at once with this car on the centre track.
Here is a Long Island one.....

http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/mow/Crew-Car-497994-Holban-Yd-11-22-47.jpg

and here is a video of the NYC poling a caboose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUb8PeeT2WI

 

[MR SPOCK]

[align=center]Thanks for that info , could fancy one of those poling cars , make iteresting model,

and that video, didnt think it would be that speed of moving blimey
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[Dinas Bryn]

Some years ago we would get a caravan off a muddy field, the car being on a tarmac road, using a rope simaler to your photos, i surpose H&S wouldn't allow that now Les

 

[chris m01]

I heard about 'fly' shunting in the UK but never seen it done

I saw fly shunting for real for tjhe first time this year in Switzerland. Great to see.

Now I need to see pole shunting!

 

[minimans]

I heard about 'fly' shunting in the UK but never seen it done

I saw fly shunting for real for tjhe first time this year in Switzerland. Great to see.

Now I need to see pole shunting!

How does a fly shunt boxcars????????????????? What you need is one of these wee beasties.................................

 

[MR SPOCK]

I heard about 'fly' shunting in the UK but never seen it done

I saw fly shunting for real for tjhe first time this year in Switzerland. Great to see.

Now I need to see pole shunting!

How does a fly shunt boxcars????????????????? What you need is one of these wee beasties.................................

[align=center]Brilliant Paul hahaha

take this is a main trunkline route
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[David1226]

Obviously no little blue pills anywhere near these tracks

David

 

[pugwash]

Well at least we now have a job for used toothpicks...
They still use hump shunting at the Mertert port, I'll go and take some pics when the weather lets up

 

[spike]

Well at least we now have a job for used toothpicks...
They still use hump shunting at the Mertert port, I'll go and take some pics when the weather lets up

Here are some videos of hump operations.

The business end with the retarders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndryMwF41Kk&NR=1

Enola hump yard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUMlYjniHb0&feature=related

 

[minimans]

Obviously no little blue pills anywhere near these tracks

David

Welcome back David!!