Steve How did you handle grade crossings. Did your vehicle activate the gates and flashers and did you have to toot the horn at whistle posts approaching a crossing? Mike O. Smtimko_@_aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 3/1/2008 11:41:21 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu writes: > > What was it like to do this. I suppose you had to remember to keep you > hands off the wheel. > > > Ed--- > > It was fairly easy to line the vehicle up and get "set on". The hardest > thing about it was everyone deciding to get out when you were doing it and you > had to watch for traffic, your tour party and lining the vehicle up. After a > few set-ons it was routine. > > The front wheels were lined straight and then secured with a yoke that > flipped around an arm on the steering wheel. Some vehicles had a spring loaded > locking pin that locked into a device on the steering column and newer vehicles > now have a Velcro piece about five inches x five inches that you place > across the top of the steering column and steering wheel and it keeps the wheel > straight. The wheel moves ever so slightly when you round a curve, just a > little tension to the left or right. Running over a self-guarded frog or a > flange timber that is sticking up will give a slight sensation of going to the > left or right but usually the vehicle settles right down. > > I have hi-railed virtually tens of thousands of miles, using mainly a > Suburban and have only derailed once; ballast on both rails--vandalism. > > SMT > > > > The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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