Pete: When (or ) did you sleep? Heck, Deb & I would like to get time to run for a couple hours never mind 36.
I (we) had a great night's sleep. You're welcome to run anything at any time, George. Just give us a call. The two trains are waiting on sidings now, as a track cleaner runs, and runs, and runs.
Ohhh, the FRA's gonna get on you, Pete!! After all, the Hours of Service Law requires a maximum of 12 hours on duty and a minimum of 8 hours off after that. Your union locals must be pushovers, too!! Of course, if your train crew was an time and a half after 8 hours, guess they were happy.
Isn't it double-time after 12? And maybe triple time if it's overtime on the weekend? I remember racking up some big bucks as a Teamster (brewery worker) or IEEE (GE, in general). Overall, though, you got me.
Well, you could just hook up a sound system and then turn out all the lights. With the correct subwoofer, it'd be just like a day at Tehachapi, where all the trains go by at night! Tony Burzio San Diego, CA
2200 scale miles and they did'nt even have to stop for fuel. BOY THAT'S what I fuel efficient engines.
Pete's the only guy I know that could take a new locomotive and break it in by running it maybe "twice" around his layout! Brian
Diesels are easy: twice around, pulling a train, in each direction. That's about 90 minutes of running, Steam isn't so easy--at least four times around, maybe more. I've got to master those Z scale couplers on the pilots to run in reverse. I have found that running in reverse is critical to breaking in steam, but that's a mystery for another day.
