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To: Chode

—” i thought it prolly takes a real driver not to smoke a clutch getting that train moving”

A friend’s father was a train engineer, he explained how you do not simply drive off with a loaded train, takes some experience.
Using the slack in many couplings and feeling the rhythm.
Power to the first few cars, then off the power, as the front cars lurch forward, power...
Using the momentum of the cars and the slack of the couplings.

Guessing there is not much slack in a fifth wheel?
Does anyone know the weight of this rolling monster?


33 posted on 03/03/2021 1:34:03 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

yup, trains have to reverse sometimes before going forward to manage the coupling slack

i had to ask that question


36 posted on 03/03/2021 2:41:45 PM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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