Ex Citirail, Union Pacific, and backwards Amtrak??? • Royal Oak, Mi

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The "backward" Amtrak usually means that something happened in Pontiac, usually with 350, where they couldn't put a southbound facing locomotive on the south end (usually for 355) and/or didn't have time to wye the train at North Pontiac before having to depart as 355. So they bite the bullet and shove it south the 20 miles at restricted speed until Milwaukee Jct. where they wye it and proceed west with the locomotive leading. The conductor has to "protect" the long shove move from the rear (front) vestibule. He has a "beaver tail" attached to the rear air hose so he can put the train into emergency if needed by opening its anglecock. That shrill sound you heard was a "whistle" made by pushing a button on the beaver tail like a horn. The engineer has to blow too for the crossings.