Madam Queen looks absolutely royal! A massive beast like that must have made a thunderous sound hammering upgrade!
They had a French translation on the local channels, "Ca bouge en grand". I had the pleasure of watching a Big Boy and a Turkish engine being moved. The one in Turkey was an interesting one as they filmed the move from the point of view of those riding in the cab of the moved loco. That was an interesting ride!
My friend affirmed that kaolin cars would not require any kind of spacer cars and that the boxcars were merely part of the consist. His thoughts are in keeping with their random appearance at the head end of this train. When I handle tank cars on my N Scale road, I add spacers between locomotives and the caboose just for the fun of it and re-arrange the consist to keep spacers in place each time the train stops to switch. Yep, I always run cabooses. My road refuses to modernize.