Saturday, March 23, 2019

From a retired railroad engineer


“You take your time and go by one hundred percent of the rules, and that’s how you handle it,” Wilcox says. “You do exactly what you need to do.”




For a while, I was brakeman for a local train on the Penn Central Railroad, out of Anderson, Indiana. A local is a short-range train, dropping off cars filled with parts to be made into something, picking up empties or scrap. The work was easy, and gave lots of time to just sit and watch Indiana go by.

The train is unforgiving. There are rules of mass, and mere humans must follow the rules.



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