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Low Man on the Totem Pole

            The field man, or in this case, the pin-puller, on SP's 10AM Hump Job at City of Industry, CA sometime in 1971. It was always more comfortable in the hump operators tower where the conductor had a nice seat and flipped switches on the control board. The hump at City of Industry, was somewhat unique, in that it had a downhill approach, on a curve to the hump itself. The bowl only consisted of thirteen tracks IIRC and there were safety retarders prior to reaching the crest because of the downhill approach. These were installed shortly after the hump opened there, when a cut that had been bled-off for the move pulled the two C415's and train into the bowl and derailed. In addition, they did not bleed-off the air on the five cars closest to the loco's until they got to them, so the engineer had the use of some train air to help control the cut, which a lot of time consisted of upwards of 100 cars. Those were the days...
   

Taken in: United States / California / Industry (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1971

Tags:

trains

Southern Pacific

hump

City of Industry

California « less

Sets appears in: • Black & White • SP

Groups appears in: • Western US Rails

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