I found the video very hard to watch and couldn't watch it all the way through at first. So after your comment I went back and tried to fast forward to the monkey & wagon parts and did notice that a hook would grab a monkey from the wagon as the train passed by so I assume that they removed the tail gate because the monkeys would get hung up on it as the train rolled away.
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