Re: [CBQ] Train handling question

["mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

I'm an "air man", but I still managed to collect quite a bit of money in "fuel 
cards" :>)  The Trainmaster asked "How did Decker get a fuel card?"  Mostly, 
any time I wasn't having to pull a load uphill, I could time shutting off so 
that the "drift" would keep it pretty near track speed.  Coming down out of 
Newcastle, I used to "drift brake".   If you did it just right, you could go 
for miles with a "minimum" or 10 pounds in a coal train, and never touch the 
dynamic :>)  
 

 I heard that one of our young "piglets" that I had for a Conductor a couple 
times, told my Daughter's boyfriend that "Mike breaks all the rules, but he 
stopped that train like a car.  I thought we were going to get "dinged" for 
it."  The Company's got the new guys so afraid of touching the brake valve, 
that most of them won't do it until they are just about by the red one.  Most 
people out there running now would likely kill somebody on a waycar.
 

 Mike