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<p>Thank you for the memory jog on the speed decel or boost. I recall the milk tanker had no baffles and when one finished the stop at the traffic light all that liquid is gathered up at the front. Guess what? It now slams to the back of the tank some 30 feet away literally trying to drag the truck brakes and all backwards a few feet. That is probably as close as I want to deal with such forces.</p><p>Thank you for the clarification of the caboose crew. I wonder if the Engineer is made responsible for crew injuries due to slack? Did such a thing exist in the steam days? Certainly the boom falls on that engineer if he burns the rails too much with wheelslip for example.</p>
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