Sheer Luck Holmes
Train Attendant
- Joined
- Jul 20, 2006
- Messages
- 48
Slightly off topic, but as seen from many Amtrak train trips... On some of the longer freight trains that you have over in the USA, I have noticed sometimes a few locomotives at the head, plus some at the rear, and I think once or twice even some also in the middle (but I can't be 100% sure on that last one!)
I can see how an engineer could control several engines at the front, with jumper cables between locos, but can he control others at the rear, or do they have seperate crews? If so, do they communicate by radio? Are all the brakes controlled by the lead engine?
SLH
I can see how an engineer could control several engines at the front, with jumper cables between locos, but can he control others at the rear, or do they have seperate crews? If so, do they communicate by radio? Are all the brakes controlled by the lead engine?
SLH