At 0:47, MRL 401 is actually on the adjacent track as the cut of cars rolls by. I may be wrong but it looks like what you may have caught was probably an old railroad trick of swapping ends. The D&RGW used to do that on the Rocky local out of Denver.
I agree. Engine was on opposite end and needed those cars in a dead end siding. They got a run farther down, uncoupled at speed, pulled away from the cars, went over the switch and as soon as the engine cleared, the switch was thrown for the cars to go down the dead end siding. Then the loco came back and went down the siding and pulled the cars back to where they needed to be,
It's called kicking car. It's a common procedure of letting them freeroll for switching operations. Your ridiculous "runaway train" claim is why a lot of railroaders don't like railfans. Maybe you should do a little research before you post that type of stuff on the internet and stop filming railroad workers walking around.
At 0:47, MRL 401 is actually on the adjacent track as the cut of cars rolls by. I may be wrong but it looks like what you may have caught was probably an old railroad trick of swapping ends. The D&RGW used to do that on the Rocky local out of Denver.
I agree. Engine was on opposite end and needed those cars in a dead end siding. They got a run farther down, uncoupled at speed, pulled away from the cars, went over the switch and as soon as the engine cleared, the switch was thrown for the cars to go down the dead end siding. Then the loco came back and went down the siding and pulled the cars back to where they needed to be,
It's called kicking car. It's a common procedure of letting them freeroll for switching operations. Your ridiculous "runaway train" claim is why a lot of railroaders don't like railfans. Maybe you should do a little research before you post that type of stuff on the internet and stop filming railroad workers walking around.