Nudge Wrote:
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> Just giving an eastern ahead sign, then a western
> sign for either "come to me" or "go away from me."
> At night they are all eastern. (ahead, stop and
> back)
>
> The engineer could have waited a bit before
> blowing the ears off the guy. A small toot would
> have sufficed until he got into the cab. I know of
> some old head ground pounder's that would have
> shoved the whistle valve down the guys throat.
>
> Some of those new engineer guys scare me. They
> could use a little horse sense out there. Then
> again, I knew where a brakeman would give the
> hoghead a "one car" sign and it was at the joint.
> The engineer started to listen.
>
>
> Nudge

I agree nudge. New guys at the throttle scare me too. 85 percenters.