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Hello everyone I am Rodney I work for the BNSF as a conductor I just started this year but most every engineer i have worked with has had there window cracked open just to hear the engines run and I have also had my window cracked open for the same reason I grew up on a farm and know how a diesel engine sounds when it is loaded up and running there is nothing like pulling a loaded coal train up a hill and both you and the engineer hear the second unit surging which means it is unloading on you and a moment later loading back up some thing like that can cause a pull apart i.e. broken knuckel not fun to change out on the road they weight about 80 lbs the engineers that I have worked with if that happens would rather take the unit offline and take there chances with one as opposed to pulling the train apart if the train can not make the hill the dispatcher is toned up and told about the problem most often the dispatcher can find an empty hopper train that can spare a unit or have a train come up from behind and help pu***he train up the hill.
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