Re: Air brake question
Author: BN Oly
Date: 11-09-2016 - 21:09
I overheard a radio conversation many years ago on Stevens Pass. A train with a unit with inoperative dynamics was coming down through Scenic when they got stopped for a slide fence indication or something of the like. The engineer was leery about the release with the dynamics not at full strength so he had the conductor go back and turn up retainers. If I remember right they didn't turn up the whole train either. They stopped at Skykomish to release them. This would have been circa 1997-99 or so.