Buckles Blog: End of the line! #3

Sunday, April 27, 2008

RBBB Wreck3, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Buckles said...: This picture reminds me of one of the elephant cars we used on the show. It had a passenger door in the end that previously Axel had backed his elephants up to.
I had a young male named "Hugo" that I headed into the end of the car to lessen chances of a newcomer passing by him by mistake.
After loading out one night, I was awakened early the next morning and told that "Hugo" had opened the door and had reached down and uncoupled the yard engine.
By the time I arrived there were quite a few railroad people on the scene all enjoying themselves.
Every time they coupled the car he would reach down and with a flip of the end of his trunk uncouple it.
I found it rather unsettling to realize just how simple it was to unhook a railroad car.
I shuffled a few elephants around and away we went. The door was later sealed of.; 27 April, 2008 09:19

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