Railroad no-nos(the real world edition of Hobby no-nos)

[arkansasrailfan]

Never leave food on a engine manifold......it might explode(or just burn up)
Let the government run a railroad(think hmmmmm, Amtrak on non- Amtrak track??????)

[trainboyH16-44]

I'd challange your last point, look what happened to CN after they were privatized!

Oh, and...I lost the game. 

[arkansasrailfan]

The US gov doesn't know how to run a railroad. except for conrail, which they just owned it.

Never run a really light car in your consist, because it will go in the ditch.

[CSXrules4eva]

I got one...Never allow the engineer to tell you that he's got everything under control (Go take a nap if you want) to because, by the time you wake up and look over at the engineer he will be asleep too. Man what a scary feeling; hope you didn't run an absolute signal!

[Packer]

Merge with as many companies as possible

Let women drive the train. (you see how bad they are in cars...)

[arkansasrailfan]

Never choose a pretty paint scheme(KCS) over cab signals and isolated cabs.(It's really a joke told to me by a KCS engineer.(He likes the GEs better)

by the way, i just saw a E-L hopper.

[ndbprr]

When running a steel mill locomotive never race another guy for the right of way at a converging switch.  Both would up getting fired and did several hundred thousand dollars worth of damage.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Let women drive the train. (you see how bad they are in cars...)

I hope that your wife doesn't see this post.  At any rate, I've ridden BN suburban trains in the past with women at the throttle and I didn't notice any difference in train-handling.

[Packer]

Let women drive the train. (you see how bad they are in cars...)

I hope that your wife doesn't see this post.  At any rate, I've ridden BN suburban trains in the past with women at the throttle and I didn't notice any difference in train-handling.

I don't have a wife. :lol: (how many 18 year olds have wives?)

[arkansasrailfan]

Never back a long chem train down a steep grade on a curve.BOOM!BAM!SCREEEEEEEE!

Yes, I did this in MSTS, trying to double the hill. Never let temper get you. My engines didn't derail(why should they, otherwise it wouldn't derail midtrain.

Yes, and flying a plane is NOT like driving a train or a car.(Hey! I hit Mach in a Cessna!)

I went Mach 1 in a HHL-8 in ......MSTS(With a steam engine, so that the smoke was just a thin stream.

[enr2099]

Never run a really light car in your consist, because it will go in the ditch.

You can run a light car on your train, put it on the tail end. I'd like to change that then, never run an MT on the head end ahead of the heavy loads. 

[arkansasrailfan]

Never pick the wrong siding and end of going off a midair track into a gorge.
Ouch.

[Anonymous]

That's why they make an emergency brake...duh!

[arkansasrailfan]

Ever hear of, "Panic over order"? HMMMMMMMM!??
I actually altered MSTS just to have a little fun.
But the brakes on mSTS are crap, because a train has too much momentum. But the wrecks are very real indeed. just trains don't go straight into a gorge.
But one train stopped one inch from the end, but moved a little bit so one engine and three cars went with it. Might I mention it had locotrol?

[Packer]

Eat/drink the worm before driving a loco.