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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by skeets I've been running engines for 28 years. You can indeed tell a lot about what the trailing units are doing by listening to them. You can also tell a lot abbout what your train is doing through your ***. That's right, your ***! You can feel the slack; tell how the train is running through your butt. That's one thing all the simulators lack; no matter how sophisticated they get, none simulate the slack action at the butt. Ask your "old head" engineer about that, eh? [/quote] This goes back to my story about how do you know how fast you are traveling? Count telephone poles, Pi R Square and divide by 2. Yank Yank.... No, you do it by "feel". Dad didn't have to look at the "speed recorder". He had 42 years in and knew exactly how fast he was going - by the feel and the seat of his bib overalls! Ook [/quote] Well, I'm not a hogger, and I have never run a "train" per say, but I did have an opportunity to run an Alco RS1on the New England RR. They have this "Engineer for an Hour" program. For a generous donation to the museum you get instruction, and can run a unit about 4 miles up and back a stretch of closed track. Probably the coolest experience of my life, so far. The guy instructing me told me the same thing. He said anyone can move a throttle. To really run a train, you use your butt and the skill is in the braking. I immediately was able to understand this with my first ever brake application. IT WAS SOOOO COOL.[:)][:D][8D][:D][:D] Admiral
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