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Have a look at this from America during WW2.
It shook me a bit when I saw the men jumping on and off of moving trains.
I have seen 2 shunters loose thier legs by such action in my time on the railway.
Another film from the USA. This time about a horse shoe curve and coal trains.
Yet again it looks like a Health and Safety nightmare.
We have such a curve which connects the L and Y to the LNW near Miles Platting at Manchester.
We called it Indian Rubber Junction.
As when a MGR rain goes round this railway, you can see the rear of the train at right angles to where you are at.
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