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
Where does the engineer sit in a Cab Forward Locomotive. Do all the right
side ontrols have to be moved over and reversed?
Harley
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!! [:-)
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
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
>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
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
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
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
