QUOTE: Originally posted by dknelson Actually I think it may be the brake. If you see the old Burt Lancaster movie The Train feturing French steam of the 1930s and before during WWII, I recall a scene where he needs to stop a steam locomotive in the tunnel (it was being strafed by Allied planes) and he turns a wheel to do so. Just barely stops with the engine nose at the far tunnel entrance -- the plane flies off. Maybe my memory is playing tricks. I do know that that is one of the really great railroad themed movies of all time with tremendous scenes of steam and some shocking wrecks (the movie makers were permitted to destroy a French rail yard that was being abandoned). Dave Nelson
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QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Besides...it a polish locomotive...why not use a steering wheel for a throttle?[:D] Ed
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