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Today A friend of mine arranged me a visit inside the cab of a diesel. What an experience!!!! The engineer knows the guy , so he left the loco and let the two of us in (there was some other guy inside but he was bussy doing nothing and staring through a window). The locomotive was EMD GT22HW, which is international equivalent of GP39 but with A-1-A trucks, air conditioning and HEP. here is a picture, this is not mine, just an example of the locomotive [img]http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/hr/diesel/2044/blue/020/2044-020-aaz-01.jpg[/img] What a machine!!! The controls feel so real when you touch them (probably has something to do with the fact that they ARE real) and not cab images in a train simulator. The control stand is shaking too much, at least it does in Idle. The chair is nice, sort of like your avarage home computer chair. The train was a passanger train waiting to depart in a station so we couldn't do anything (like change notches) with the controls, but I did sit and touch every thing I saw :-) Love the sound from inside the cab (turbocharged 645 12-cylinders) Really a great experience. This guy that gave me this opportunity (he is 20 like me) knows most of the local engineers and they had let him drive locomotives many times. Boy is he lucky. He said he'll try and arrange a cab ride (this was just a cab tour), I hope he can. Again not my picture, but an example of how the cab looks like. [img]http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/hr/diesel/2044/cab/2044-016-07.jpg[/img] What's your story about the first time you entered a locomotive cab? And which locomotive was it?
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