Working rail roads and their tracks.

[eolesen]

When I was loading Army and Postal vehicles onto rail cars, we had to move the cars by hand after the loco dropped them on the siding to get them close enough to each other for the bridge plates to span the gap between cars. Then we'd set the brakes.

The tool was similar to this....

I've used one of those to move cars at the Illinois Railway Museum.

 

[ArlyA]

A southbound taconite train rounds the bend near Mt Iron MN this afternoon amid snow squalls that were moving through the area. 12/18/25