From: j.albert@snet.net   
      
   On 8/22/14 12:20 AM, mroberds@att.net wrote:   
   > , item 3.0, "Leaving a Train Unattended", on paper page 177, PDF page   
   > 5 of 8, says (in part):   
   >   
   > CPR# On the controlling locomotive, the control stand must be left as   
   > CPR# follows.   
   > CPR# . Independent brake cut-IN and FULLY applied.   
   > CPR# . Automatic brake cut-IN and handle in RELEASE.   
      
   Absolutely astounding that the instructions would state to leave the   
   train air brakes on a standing and unattended train IN RELEASE.   
      
   If the air is available, why not leave the air brakes applied? Modern   
   brake equipment has a pressure-maintaining feature that will maintain   
   the brake pipe (and the application) where it's set, for extended   
   periods of time.   
      
   As someone who ran trains for 32 years, this makes no sense to me.   
      
   If the above instruction was applicable to the territory that the MMA   
   train was being operated on, then they can't hold it against the   
   engineman that he left the train brakes in release.   
      
   But again, -I- wouldn't leave a freight train parked on a grade with the   
   train brakes in release, no matter how many hand brakes were applied !!!!   
      
   --- SoupGate/W32 v1.03   
    * Origin: LiveWire BBS -=*=- UseNet FTN Gateway (1:2320/1)