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I wholeheartedly agree with you, Big Jim.  Experience is what makes the difference.  But experience is really a series of procedures, rules, and events repeated over time that produce best results.However, in the past, I've found that if they get a chance to think about it, experienced people can always explain how and why they did things the way they did.  My most recent example was a locomotive engineer who stepped out of the change point office, glanced up and down his train, and shook his head.  He mumbled "This is a dangerous train..." and when I asked him how he knew that, he gave me a laundry list of accurate observations.  Along with, "Every train is different."So, if I were able to find a live steam engineer and asked him how he pushed a train up and over the hills outside Roanoke, I think I would get a fairly detailed answer, even if it was specific to that one hill and one specific locomotive.I know what you mean when the airwaves go quiet with modern engineers, but if asked right, they could probably state with authority what they were doing and why- and it would be more than "been doin this for a long time, sonny"...
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