Re: Drivers side

2000-03-28 Thread Btflco
In a message dated 3/28/00 11:24:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Where does the engineer sit in a Cab Forward Locomotive. Do all the right side ontrols have to be moved over and reversed? >> Harley, the answer is yes. Because the engineer and fireman still have to l

RE: Drivers side

2000-03-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where does the engineer sit in a Cab Forward Locomotive. Do all the right side ontrols have to be moved over and reversed? Harley

Re: Drivers side

2000-03-27 Thread SaltyChief
In a message dated 00-03-27 16:39:49 EST, you write: << Did you hear about the day the Swedes changed over from driving on the right to the left hand side. >> Are you sure it wasn't the Norwegians!! [:-)

Re: Drivers side

2000-03-27 Thread MIKEY
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:18:14 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 00-03-26 19:36:20 EST, you write: > ><< If that is true, why did us rebels not copy the Brit Automobile right side > driver design? >> >I know this one? The British had very narrow roads with hedgerows on either >side. Before t

Re: Drivers side

2000-03-27 Thread SaltyChief
In a message dated 00-03-27 14:38:06 EST, you write: << The mortality rate of left handed knights was very high and the plan didn't work on one way lanes except after a Beefeaters! >> Well this left handed old Viking decendant thinks old uncle Geoff has been into the Befeaters one too many

Re: Drivers side

2000-03-27 Thread Sam Evans
>From memory, while Brit loco drivers were ?mainly? on the RHS, this was not always the case. Some locos were left hand drive tho whether this was a matter of what the Rly Co preferred I'm not sure. On double track the UK railways take after the roads, ie left hand running and this also holds tr

Re: Drivers side

2000-03-27 Thread Geoff Spenceley
Salty, Your Explanation copied below--Are you misinformed!! It goes back much further than this and is much more noble! This the true origin of Brits driving on the left: Like most of us, King Arthur's knights of the round table were right handed (that's the arm on the starboard side) Theref

Re: Drivers side

2000-03-27 Thread SaltyChief
In a message dated 00-03-26 19:36:20 EST, you write: << If that is true, why did us rebels not copy the Brit Automobile right side driver design? >> I know this one? The British had very narrow roads with hedgerows on either side. Before the invention of the infernal horsless carrage the dr

Re: Drivers side

2000-03-26 Thread Ktaylorlv
In a message dated 3/26/2000 7:36:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is it true that in your homeland the locomotive driver (that is the correct > term there isn't it?) is on the starboard side (i.e., right side as in left > and right, not as in right and wrong)? Walt

Drivers side

2000-03-26 Thread WaltSwartz
Geoff & all the other Brits on the line: Is it true that in your homeland the locomotive driver (that is the correct term there isn't it?) is on the starboard side (i.e., right side as in left and right, not as in right and wrong)? If that is true, why did us rebels not copy the Brit Automobile