Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> > Doing away with . . . brake sticks
>
> Back when I started out, we had brake clubs, which
> you needed for apply the old staff type ahnd
> brakes.
>
> > not getting on/off moving equipment is a step
> backwards in safe operating practices.
>
> For over 100 years crews got on and off moving
> equipment, but suddenly in about 1992 bean
> counters with no little to operating experience
> declared it "unsafe". If anything, not getting on
> and off moving equipment has killed trainmen's
> skills for switching cars (and certainly made it
> more time consuming when they try). It's also the
> reason why I stopped running switch engines and
> went out on the road.


Me too!