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Re: TA is obsessed with CBTC, and ''New'' tech for no reason. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 07:40:40 2008, in response to Re: TA is obsessed with CBTC, and ''New'' tech for no reason., posted by Railman718 on Wed Mar 5 07:24:43 2008. Just to chide in for giggles ... the RULE is the RULE, good for you on being a good doo-bee. Keeps ya out of the house'o'weenies. Heh. I find it personally interesting though in that it shows how much things have changed since the days of arnines and BMT steels. Nice to have motors you can count on, wasn't always like that.When you had dubious trains and were planning to actually MAKE a grade, and couldn't count on RCI's to take it out of service merely because half your motors had turned into trailers, you were taught to ease off before a climb up the bridge out of DeKalb so as to let timers clear ahead of you and then GUN it once you got your R/10 marker in hopes of having enough "oomph" to get over the top. And on under-rivers, get all the speed you could when hitting the bottom so you could make the climb back out. BAD things happened if you were shy of motors and didn't operate that way. It was particularly acute on the Canarsie with those old beatup steels ... literally called "shooting the timers" since if you didn't run that way, you were boned on the climb back outta there. :) But then again, back then, if you actually FOLLOWED the rulebook, they'd take you out of service for "wildcat strike/job action." Heh. |
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