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Well I hate to say it as an engineer myself, but a man with 30+years of experience certainly knows the difference between the dynamic brake an the throttle, something sounds fishy about this to me. <br />for one thing depending on which control stand this engine had, the throttle and dynamic brake handles work in opposite directions. if it had the older style stand with a selector lever then they do work in the same direction, however, it would do you no good to put the unit in dynamics with the independant fully set, as there is an interlock, called the dynamic brake interlock (dbi) that virtually knocks out the dynamic brakes (except a very small amount) when the independant brake has more than 20psi on it. more than likely what happened is he hit the throttle with his hip or leg as he was getting up to go line the switch, this would nock the throttle in the right direction, unfortunately he probably figured he could save a step and just left it opened. then the train would slowly come to him as he lined the switch, got back on and back to work, saving the steps back to the engine. i would say it just got too fast for him, or he miss stepped trying to get back on. the story he is telling doesn't sound like the truth. but stranger things have happened.
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