P42DC Control Questions

[hf1001]

Would anyone be able to tell what the following controls are on this photo listed below-

-red colored foot pedal

-switch under the locomotive brake

-red and green colored button in corner above the brake levers

-the black phone which labels AMT

 

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=207468&nseq=0  

 

[Rodney Beck]

Here is my attempt, the red foot button is probilly for horn sequince, the yellow button is the alerter, the black phone is the radio handset and the other one I have no idea.

 

Rodney

locomotive engineer BNSF

[hf1001]

 I'm sorry, I wasn't very clear on the position of one control. I was talking about the black switch/knob directly in front of the loco brake. It might be to bail off. Here is a link to a better photo of this control-

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=203336&nseq=3

[rrboomer]

The red/green buttons are MU shutdown (red), MU run (green).

Button below is most likely attendent call (alarm bell).

[Anonymous]

May I take a stab at it? Red/green buttons on panel next to the screens: MU stop. Red pedal: alerter reset? Black button in front of loco brake, possibly to set up the brakes for passenger or freight air, since I don't see that little lever next to the train brake. On second thought, as a passenger engine, it might not have much use for that. And it's already been mentioned that the phone is the radio handset.

That brings up a question of my own, I've always assumed bailing off was done with the loco brake lever itself, not a separate control. What is the actual way it's done?

[hf1001]

On conventional cabs (up right control stand) the engineer pushes down on the loco brake which bails it off, however on moderized desktop controls I believe the concept is the same except the engineer must push the lever to the right and that allows it to bail off. I wrote a forum all about this subject in the locomotive section called locomotive break.

                 Hope I answered some questions for you, Rooke

[zugmann]

The red pedal looks just like the cab signal acknowldegment pedals that NS and CR engines have...