Hi Bob, Andre;

I'm not sure how the majority feel about this. It is interesting, if a tad 
difficult to transfer into model form...

Maybe it provides a prototype sounding excuse the next time the DCC/DC/String 
fails.

Perhaps we could change the subject line? 

Pieter E. Roos


--- On Mon, 12/5/11, shabbona_rr <[email protected]> wrote:

> I understand that, Andre, but I would
> never leave the pit with a leaky equalizing reservoir,
> especially on CCP/IC. I can understand one developing a leak
> enroute, because of the O ring rubber seals. 
> 
> On Santa Fe, they indoctrinated us on ways to "get'em over
> the road" in unforeseen situations. I was firing for an
> engineer who changed the glass bowls in an EMD fuel line
> once, because the main one broke and the bypass one wasn't
> doing anything.
> 
> An RFE once told me that I had earned my keep for my entire
> career for some steps I took as a "useless" fireman to
> preserve the diesel engine on a dead unit in
> sub-sub-sub-zero cold weather. The roundhouse foreman was
> mad because I couldn't save the air compressor, too, after
> the handle on the drain cock broke off in my hand.
> 
> My answer? "Why are you picking on me? The company position
> is that I'm just dead weight around here!" He just shrugged
> his shoulders and walked away. That was the second time I
> saved a pound of bacon. The other time was before I was even
> promoted to an engineer. I earned the everlasting gratitude
> of the engineer I was firing for on that one!
> 
> You're right, we better get back to saving S scale. DCC,
> anyone?
> 
> Bob Nicholson 



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