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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Train handling question
From: "Leo qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 12:59:01 -0500
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Ah the memories. Nicknames were usually appropriately assigned

Leo

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> On May 23, 2014, at 12:46 PM, "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" 
> <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Mike, yeah, you're probably right about the waycar point. However, I can 
> remember some pretty brutal "slack artists" back in the day when I was back 
> there. Like old "Velvet", eh Leo?
> 
> 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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