moving freight cars without locomotives - Model Railroader Magazine

I have one of these 'armstrong' car movers, there is a scissor action in the forged steel 'shoe' and the wooden pole is about 6 feet long, big logging cant hooks and peevees use the same size hardwood handle, I used it to move full 40 foot boxes of fertilizer in the 70's, don't know about modern 100 ton cars, took two of us to get one moving, never worried about one ever getting away from us, but it could have I suppose, any piece of junk on the rail stopped it at the loading dock door. I suppose in the 60's, a big operation would have a used 1st generation switcher, like an ALCO HH600 or EMD sw1, or even a war surplus GE, a small one in the country might have a Fordson tractor on or off the rails. Horses would have been mostly out of business by the steel car age, but cute yeah! And yes, on the same 42" guage as Japan, many years ago I saw one big Maori bloke push a New Zealand Railway coach. 3 guys helped get it going, he took it from there.