Buckles Blog: #5 Elliot Pix

Thursday, February 23, 2017

I often heard this was the most dangerous job on the show.
That poler is subject to being swept off the runs should it jack-knife!

Hal Guyon said...: Saw it happen on the old World of Mirth Shows once. Fortunately the poler didn`t go all the way off the flat car and landed on the gunnel. He did get a bloody nose and a cut to the face though.; 23 February, 2017 10:37
Roger Smith said...: On a scale only barely reduced, we got a dose of poling when letting Hoover's cages down his runs on the back of 78, on the Beatty show. Each was allowed down being checked by a cable, which provided some safety, but poling is poling whatever wagon is coming down.; 23 February, 2017 16:54

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