I heard last week that LAMCO does not permit using hand signals except when on lite power, any other moves require using the radio. No more run silent and they don't know what you're doing. Pure insanity, sure glad I'm not a victim of the current insanity.
FMB said
2:35 PM, 08/15/24
That should be handy in the big yards where radio traffic is already congested.
The Krink said
1:35 AM, 08/16/24
I like the "kick-em" hand signal with a lantern at night.
Cy Valley said
6:18 AM, 08/16/24
FMB wrote:
That should be handy in the big yards where radio traffic is already congested.
Exactly my first thought, I remember when they started demanding a constant car count when making a tie on the last five cars and getting very nasty about it, stopping several times just because they were getting nasty about it, to the point where one IDJIT RFE asked me why I was stopping and I replied, have you actually been monitoring the radio?
Pipes, is it true?
Thunderwagon5000 said
11:53 AM, 08/16/24
The Krink wrote:
I like the "kick-em" hand signal with a lantern at night.
Yeah. Then with yer engineer revved and the movement starts rolling -
a little added radio request - giveem a REALLY Good Kick this time
we wanna knock those tanks stuck on the frog in the turnout ta clear !
Freddie Krueger said
2:16 PM, 08/16/24
You kick like a girl....
Cy Valley said
3:08 PM, 08/16/24
Only way to kick cars was right to EIGHT.
Now, if it was slightly downhill like I recall the now gone Joyce being, that was different.
That should be handy in the big yards where radio traffic is already congested.
Exactly my first thought, I remember when they started demanding a constant car count when making a tie on the last five cars and getting very nasty about it, stopping several times just because they were getting nasty about it, to the point where one IDJIT RFE asked me why I was stopping and I replied, have you actually been monitoring the radio?
Pipes, is it true?
Yeah. Then with yer engineer revved and the movement starts rolling -
a little added radio request - giveem a REALLY Good Kick this time
we wanna knock those tanks stuck on the frog in the turnout ta clear !
Now, if it was slightly downhill like I recall the now gone Joyce being, that was different.