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Well, it was still up in the bank but the point of it was heading right straight for the side of my, my side of the cab, do you see? So he, I seen him get down behind the boilerhead and I stepped right alongside of him, behind the boilerhead. And that thing just come right into the side of the cab and tore the side of the cab right off. And that's the way we had to go to Revelstoke, with half the cab shot to pieces. How close it was… how close I had to being put out of business! We finally got the train to Revelstoke but those were trying days when you quite understand the lincoln pin and no airbrake. We couldn't stop the train… you, you could whistle but my goodness uh, the brakemen couldn't - it, it takes us time, you know, to set up them handbrakes and go from one car to the other… So if, if, for, for a few seconds while we was going through 35… till that thing stuck its nose down and tore my side of the cab off it, it, it didn't feel very good…