> Apparently Anticipate isn't in your vocab.

Not when making moves on the railroad, no.

> 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.

For the simple reason that you can never know when they want to start a kicking movement.

> So tell me what you do when the guy on the ground messes up and you can see it happening in advance??

Phooey, this assumes you're a mind reader. Give him/them a single toot on the whistle or respond by moving the engine very slowly. With radios this is frequently called "that'll do. different other back them up".

> 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.

I can tell you've never railroaded and used hand signals because most of the time you couldn't see the remaining distance. And if you anticipated an acted on what the crew was doing, they would highly resent it. About the second time the cars started moving without their giving a signal to do so, things would be 'splained to you in no uncertain terms (because you could chop off an arm, leg, or head). Do things like this enough, and they will try to knock you off the seatbox.

> 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.

Yes, many many times, and you're completely wrong. There is very little delay between the actions of the various crew members because of what is called the "chorus girl effect", which is similar to how birds in a flock move in such a coordinated fashion.

> 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.

READING books??? I bet one you didn't read was Peter Josserand's Rights of Trains, which is considered a bible of railroad operating rules. He specifically says you can't read a book and then know the subject. You have to read it, do the work, go back and read it again, etc, etc. When I was a switchman, it took about 3-5 years of working jobs daily to pick up the rhythm of the craft.

> Another feller was on the Espee, named Hardisty, worked out of Sparks Yard,

Ahh, the "Bone Crusher". Nice character reference. Last time I saw him was in KFS, and we avoided each other.

> 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.

Using the WC as a character reference in a discussion with two retired RR union men does not speak well for you.

You should stop trying to be such a US RR sexologist because you aren't pulling it off.