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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jchnhtfd Mark -- sort of depends on how gutsy the engineer is! If I couldn't see the ties and ballast, I'd walk... but then, I'm kind of conservative. The traction motors have astonishingly little clearance, and just a few inches -- two or three -- and they will be in the water. Even with less, they will be being splashed, and traction motors = high voltage elextricity. And electricity and water just don't mix. Steam engines don't have this problem, of course. But still, in terms of safe operation, you'd never do it nowadays. But then, there are a lot of things we don't do now which seemed perfectly all right 'way back when'! [/quote] Our rule is one inch over the rail. But i will tell you what i would do. I would have the conductor walk about fifty yards infront of me to make sure the track is still there. if he dissapears i know to stop, if he does not disappear i will keep on going at a walking pace!!
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