On Facebook, the New England, Berkshire & Western (“an HO scale layout created by the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society, which is a student club on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY”), posted a link to this fascinating — eventually banned for obvious safety reasons — method of moving railway cars on parallel track to the locomotive:
Raymond Breyer shared this video link on the pre-Depression page, about poling. […]
I always assumed they would move slowly and the trainman would have to hold the pole the entire time. Guess I was quite wrong! – JN