Nudge Wrote:
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> GEs were famous for dropping loads if you touched
> the throttle. If you tipped over Arlight and tied
> your train down with air, you didn't dare touch
> the throttle. If you did, either increase or
> decrease, the load would drop to zero and then
> slowley come back up. If you had a bunch of GEs on
> the head end, hang on. Here comes the train. If
> you were on the Zipper, you cold lose between 5 to
> 8 minutes between Arlight and Concepcion.
>
> A lot of times we would get a U-33 or 6700 on the
> east peddler & there were a lot places we had to
> make a drop of cars. What you did was shut off the
> generator field switch, put the throttle in run 8
> and wait. When the engine was finally wound up,
> the brakeman would give a sign. You would kick off
> the jam, turn on the Gen Fld Sw and bang instant
> load. When the brakeman would give you a sign, you
> would set the jam for a pin, turn the switch off
> and then back on and get away from the car. It was
> against the rules, damage to the generator and or
> traction motors, but that was the only way you
> could make a drop with a GE. Oh, those 6700s, had
> a 16 notch throttle that was as long as a whores
> dream, a real pain.
>
>
> Nudge


I always drop a load after eating prunes.