From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 06:12:01 PDT
I worked one summer as a lowly 3rd assistant brakeman on the Penn Central
RR. We had a new (to us) conductor sign on one week, and he had come from a
part of the country where apparently they had not heard the expression
"Stop". He said into the radio "That'll do!" when he wanted the engineer to
stop the train during a set-out operation on a siding. He kept saying
"That'll do!!!", each time more loudly, until the boxcars ran into the
bumper at the end of the siding. The engineer knew exactly what the
conductor meant, according to the accident report. "He said that what I was
doing was fine" said the engineer,"Why else would he have said 'That'll do'
instead of 'Stop'?" Luckily the only thing that got broken was a coupler,
and not arms and legs.
apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Wiehe" <j.wiehe@sympatico.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] M1009 tires + M211 and trailers
> And the ground guides favourite directions:
>
> " Go ahead, back up. Go ahead, back up. "
>
> Then they walk up to the cab and ask why do you keep
> driving forward when I'm telling you to back up ?
>
> Once you get used to doing the " small " trailers a nice
> big 48' or 53 footer will be a piece of cake.
>
> Jim Wiehe VA3JHW
> j.wiehe@sympatico.ca
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] M1009 tires + M211 and trailers
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [MV] M1009 tires + M211 and trailers
> >
> > > We did that in the Reserves too. Better mirrors would probably help
if
> > you
> > > could get them to stick out far enough and still be practical, but
failing
> > > that, it's a bit like herding cats.
> >
> > We always used a ground guide too, though some didn't
> > exactly..inspire..confidence...
> >
> >
> >
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