Reading all of these (and some from the BN list) and I think back to the 1970's
philosophy on power assignments. One day you'd get a ridiculously over-powered
#3 with 3 or 4 new SD's and maybe 30 cars. You'd have to be on top of it or
you'd over speed. Then you'd get a #185 with 2 clapped-out units and 100 cars.
There were only a few places you'd ever notch down from run 8. You'd barely get
up one bump before you were going up the next. Had to be rough in the waycar :)
And having Burke in front of you eastbound to start your day....
I get a bit jealous seeing some of these multiple unit 4000+ hp consists going
by. At least we didn't have data recorders/big brother.
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 22 May 2014 20:16:55 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Train handling question
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
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