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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by wabash1 [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Allen Jenkins Yea, Wabash1, I got a chance to run the motion sim, on a helicopter base, however, I had a video cam, and allowed that another member of our group could do as good, so I took video on my run on #6692, "The Southern Crescent," a quarter cab sim, and the fan on the motion sim, for my 7 mile loop. I'm satisfiied with my video. I ain't greedy. As an aside, the trainers, suggested a Friday Night, with a case of Bud would do the trick, Never done, as the trip was a hundred miles away, and I would have to had a motel room. Damn. [/quote] On the crescent they have a run that has a truck pull in front of you then backs up. is that the run they had you on? if so that run is started south of danville ky. they have others like the one on the n&w line across hannible mo. where you cross the mississippi river on a draw bridge and you are on restricted blocks come thru a very dark tunnel and just as you come out the bridge is open and most people go into the river. or the one where you are comming down hill overloaded on bad blocks and at the bottom of the hill is a siding and a train stalled trying to get into the siding with a cabose and flagman . hes flaging you to a stop just as you hit him. Oh the joys of running a simulator. its better to have the wrecks on them than in real life. [/quote] FOFLMAO. I have run that caboose one many times. Naturally they put the damn thing at the bottom of a grade right behind a stop and proceed (actually, I understand that is a restricting in former Southern territory) they let us run it as a restricting. It was hilarious 'cause as I was recertifying I was with the instructors after my run and they had an LET class in on their first run and I watched. You could always tell when they got to the caboose part because they'd have hilarious reactions, everything from "Jeeezus, who put that there?!?" to "Oh ***" and every imaginable variation thereof. Those sims are nice because they show you the in train forces and how it affects your train, but it is definitely NOT like running. You can't effectively use your most important Engineer sensory organ on a sim. Your Butt in the seat. Sounds crazy but it's true. LC
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