Chris Walker Wrote:
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> OPRRMS Wrote:
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> > So let me see if I understand your comment,
> Chris.
> > You posted it to accuse Zaroff and I of doing
> the
> > same thing you're now doing. That's precious.
>
> Not being "precious" go back and read both of your
> dismissive/condescending comments to Margaret.
> And while you are at it, read my two responses as
> well here's one. Apparently Anticipate isn't in
> your vocab. Why you insist on waiting for the
> ground crew to signal your every move precisely
> when kicking cars and it's obvious you have to
> perform certain moves to under take a series of
> kicks. You do realise he will emerge and give you
> stop eh. Zark's description of how to you kick
> cars was straight word from the instructor. :) Now
> when the radio was used yes you'd be correct, but
> on hand signals nah, the head went outside and you
> watched both the signal and the remaining
> distance. Ever seen a chain of passers relaying
> handsignals? What do you then since there is the
> Human delay in changing being passed down the
> chain, you watch the furthest man you see.
>
> So tell me what you do when the guy on the ground
> messes up and you can see it happening in
> advance?? I could relate several examples where
> the Shunter did a miscalculate. One pulled the
> pointlever over at the wrong track, put the loco
> doing a slip into a fully occupied road with no
> clearance at dropping speed and still waving the
> loco away. I guess you'd keep going full stitch
> into that occupied road eh.
> And once those pesky Enginedrivers got shoved off
> the Shunt here, how many of those new fangled
> Remote operating groundsmen got killed or maimed
> in the first few years (I recall at least 5 here)
> all because they had no idea on how to run the
> loco and be ahead of the 8 Ball once it started
> rolling.
> >
> > Anyway, Zarkoff has already replied to you. He
> > and I had 40+ year careers in the American
> > railroad industry, doing exactly what's shown
> in
> > the video, at the same exact location, with the
> > same exact locomotives, with the same exact
> > switchmen. Sorry to disappoint you, but we
> really
> > do know what we're talking about. I've never
> been
> > to New Zealand and know nothing about their
> > railroads and operating practices, so I'm not
> > qualified (or vain enough) to post about how
> you
> > do things in your country, thus I find it
> rather
> > odd that you feel you're qualified to post
> about
> > how we do things here.
> >
>
> Railways around the world pretty much work the
> same, regardless of terminology.
> Hmmm, how does reading books and magazines for
> very close to 50 years, visiting the US for ten
> trips(395 days on the ground, since 1982), making
> acquaintances, contacts and some friends there as
> well, as far up as Anchorage and Skagway.
> Then there are the several Drivers that went up to
> work on the Wisconsin Central after they took over
> the NZR, a couple of those I caught up with on
> their holidays back here every now and then.
>
> I always took the opportunity to introduce myself,
> strike up a conversation. Those would include
> management as well as loco crews etc, had a long
> contact with an Espee/UP enginedriver who retired
> as an El Paso road foreman, he was the one who
> related to me on running the DPU's on Beaumont.
> Another feller was on the Espee, named Hardisty,
> worked out of Sparks Yard, could have been the
> master or op's controller there back in the early
> 90's. I even had one visiting UP exec in my cab,
> on the mechanical side in Omaha. I could name on
> and on to you, but it would be a waste of typing.
> :)
> You should ask me about the US Narrow Gauges that
> were operated sometime?, that's my real passion.
>
> Cheers Pal.
>
> Chris
> in New Zealand.

"A waste of typing," eh. That's something that's never stopped you before.