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Re: [CBQ] FM-14 Flat with Detector Car Load

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] FM-14 Flat with Detector Car Load
From: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:45:01 -0700
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This is also a BN story of the B-9 car.

We got called out of Gillette to handle the B-9.  The guy in charge of the car came to talk to me about how to handle it.  "We'll run at track speed and stop as close as you can to a signal. And... don't drag it downhill with the brakes on.  You coal guys burn the brakes off it doing that!" OK, I told him.  So, I set the MU2A valve in Passenger position and, after a practice stop on the way to where we were going to start testing, to get the 'feel' of it, I ran it to Edgemont like a Passenger train.  When we got to Edgemont, he came up and told me I did good, where'd I learn to run like that.  I told him I'd come off running Passenger on a little railroad before I got to the BN and I knew how to stop without spilling the coffee.

I ran a lot by 'feel', and where the Automatic handle was pointing, without looking at the gauges.  The Company occasionally had 'words' with me over the train handling rules :>) I did escape one 'Party' for running the local to Newcastle when the train was 'out of compliance' with the 'loads and mtys' make-up, after they pulled my tapes and discovered I knew how to handle it.  The Conductor wasn't so lucky for leaving Edgemont that way and telling me it was OK, but she was new.

Mike.

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