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This is funny (I think) Teaching PASSENGER and freight engineers which I did most of my 53 years on the railroad .I used the term proud professional locomotive engineer or a subway motorman it is your choice. There is a great diffrence. I made a joke in the class that the NYC transit authority had a nut house near the car barn that would let out the inmates out at 0400 to run the subways all day I used to work for the MTA and i saw first hand how a motorman handled a train WHEW!! hang on. OH I met a lot of good motormen that tried to do what they were told BUT schedule first train handling second this is bull s---? One other comment I made in classes was the monkey thoery. I would say to the class that a monkey will do as its told but he dosn't have the finess on train handling. He just 8 th notched it and on the AEM7s 10 th notch and tears out knuckels and drawheads period, same with braking. He, the monkey just put the brakes in emergency ,slid the wheels as the declostats applied and realeasd the brakes causing excessice slack action. When the classes are over and I ride with you and I hand you a banana....you have problems...Great problems!! It is alot of fun for me to take a banana on a small railroad that I work for in southern Texas and ride with a certain engineer and after an hour or so I hand him the banana and he goes nuts. Thank GOD he is back on the ground as a yardmaster. He is a great friendly guy but it is true some CANNOT RUN TRAINS this is a fact. My years as a RFofE I can proove it. <br />Most problems with engineers is lack of training and bad habits you learn from someone else. I learned when I was an engineer a lot of things that could be called bad habit like POWER BRAKING WOW AM I GOING TO HEAR ABOUT THIS?? In the 70's on Amtrak try to teach the engineers on how to use the blended brake on the F40's or GE P30's where the independent would apply with the dynamic brake running some engineers refused to use it and I had to go to managment and insist that it be used. We all have been told not to use the independent when the DB was on so you had to teach old dogs new tricks. <br />Hogger
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