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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (181536)	5/19/2015 1:10:48 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

There was a need for brakeman in the caboose - especially before the days of radio communication from the engine to the cab. What happens if there is a fire in one of the cars in the middle of the train? A brakeman has to hike to the site of the fire and separate the car from the rest of the train. On my student trip, we had a fire in a journal box on one of the cars. We had to get out of the engine and hike back to the fire to put it out. We were parked on a trestle over the Toutle River - of Mt St Helens fame.