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From: "Nathan Simmons trainman51@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:09:14 -0600
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My random shot in the dark guess is because most people are right handed and being on the right hand side made picking orders up easier as it was with the right hand/arm.

Nate
Galaxy

On Oct 13, 2015 2:21 PM, "'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Leo

I often wonder why U.S. engineers were on the right with right hand track running (coming from a country with right hand controls on left hand track) rather than towards the centre of a pair of tracks (as it the case with vehicles).

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 


From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 14 October 2015 08:51
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines

 




Rupert,

 

What a wonderful find ! News to me. But it will become visually clear to all who see the postcard of the old Aurora yard in the soon to be issued BRHS BB 51 as to why this was needed.

Thanks,

 

Leo


On Oct 13, 2015, at 1:05 PM, 'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Left handed but for Aurora, from the 1886 Railroad Gazette -

There is now being constructed in the locomotive shops a “left-handed ” switch engine. This may seem a trifle strange to most people, yet such is the case. It is made after the style of the five new switch engines recently made here, but instead of the engineer sitting in his usual place on the right hand side of the cab, the situation will be reversed and he will occupy the left hand or fireman's side. The engine is for use in the upper end of the Aurora yard, where the tracks curve so that the signals are obliged to be given on the left-hand side of the engine. As it is now with an ordinary engine, the fireman is obliged to receive the switchman's signals and transmit them to the engineer, thus making delay and liability to accident. With the new engine the engineer can take the signals himself and thus be responsible for a correct understanding of them.


Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 



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