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As a passenger train engineer,I have worked with old head engineers, one from the Rock Island RR, one from the C&NW, and one from the CB&Q. All three of them will start the train with the air set. I've done and seen it done many other ways, all of which seem to work equally well as long as the engineer knows what he's doing. <br /> <br />As far as stopping, unless it is downgrade, the best is to keep the slack stretched. And power braking is the best way to do this. Also, we run locomotives at both ends of the train, so powerbraking is a must to keep the locomotives on the rear of the train from running in when the brakes are released. This can normally be accomplished by just placeing the throttle in 1 a few seconds before you release the brakes. <br /> <br />By the way Zardoz, we happen to run two former C&NW F7-A's, numbers 402, and 403. Both of which ran commuter service at some point in there career, and both are still geared for 90
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