“Everything has to meet certain standards. All rolling stock has
to have metal wheels, it has to use couplers that match up
with everything else. Engines, as far as decoders you don’t just
bring anything in for an operating session and say, ‘here, I want
to run this.’ It has to come down early and have an approval
given by the engine foreman.
“There are a lot of different interests. And we invite the differ-
ent interests. But at the same time we make it clear that we
cannot necessarily meet all the different interests.
14: All railroads run on paperwork. Track and rolling stock
defects have to be written up, dated, and initialed. Another
form is a checklist of coupler, weight, and rolling inspec-
tions for cars to be placed into service, and the club also
has its own track warrants.
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