07-01-2010, 06:00 AM
I tell students all the time while we dink around at 2mph while they preceede the move "Wheels are round, feet are flat. Why are you walking??" You can't get ran over by your train if you're safely riding the end of the cut.[/quote]
Occasionally I would fill in for an engineer at another short line, and their conductor was notorious for walking, and just messing around. He was just plain slow.
I finally told him one day that today was the day he got retrained. He rode, we kicked cars, we got done 4 hours early. He didn't like it, but I was salary , he was hourly. You would think he worked safely with all this slow motion stuff...He didn't
Another thing a lot of guys here probably are not aware of is that when you see a trainman reach in to open a knuckle that the car is defective. All knuckles should open with the cut lever, just pull it up, and the knuckle kicker will do its job.
Charlie
Occasionally I would fill in for an engineer at another short line, and their conductor was notorious for walking, and just messing around. He was just plain slow.
I finally told him one day that today was the day he got retrained. He rode, we kicked cars, we got done 4 hours early. He didn't like it, but I was salary , he was hourly. You would think he worked safely with all this slow motion stuff...He didn't
Another thing a lot of guys here probably are not aware of is that when you see a trainman reach in to open a knuckle that the car is defective. All knuckles should open with the cut lever, just pull it up, and the knuckle kicker will do its job.
Charlie