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Being a good engineer is all about maintaining tight control of your train. To maintain tight control of speed and slack you have to know where your train is, where your train is going, and where your train has been. All the hills and dips really make a difference on how your train acts. When the head end of the train starts going up hill (ascending) you need to add power then so the slack does not run in. I have been working on the railroad for 22 years and I have seen very serve slack action. When I was a rear brakeman on a train coming from Janesville, Wisconsin to Proviso Yard in 1984 we encountered slack action so bad that the conductors desk broke away from the wall, that is the main reason the railroads wanted to get rid of the caboose because there were a lot of personal injuries to the crew in the caboose. <br /> Dave UP engineer
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