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Back in my training days, my engineer, Sully had told me, "You hit that camp crossing at 50 with the brakes set up, you'll have 'em in your lap; no problem getting down to 30 [a speed restriction] at Rocks." Well one morning, Sully, who by now trusted me implicitly, was sound asleep. The fog along the river was THICK, and I was doing 55 and needed to get down to 30 at Rocks. Looking along the tracks below the cab, I was straining to find some landmarks. I figured it was about right here, so made a brake reduction. The air stopped blowing; the speed started to drop off; I recognized the camp crossing as we rolled over it in the potato soup AT 50! <br /> <br />About this time, Sully woke from his beauty nap. Looking up in the fog, he saw the permanent 30mph marker. Now, he didn't hear me make the brake reduction, and here I am doing considerably more than that. Not knowing the brakes are set up, and thinking we're running released into a 30mph restriction at almost 50, he jumps up out of the seat and hollers, "Put the brake on!" He reaches around the control stand and puts'er in Full Service. She only needed a small reduction and notching off; she'd a sat right down at 30. Instead, we stopped in the interlocking. "I'm sorry, skeets, I didn't hear you put the brake on." <br /> <br />I sang "Beautiful Dreamer" at him occasionally after that. He could dish it out, but he could take it too. He took it in good humor; it was the only thing I could pick on him about, because he didn't mess up often. Rest in peace, old friend.
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