While I don't have a bucket list there's a bunch of stuff that comes to mind when asked about it.
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Thus my training kicked in. Using all I learned I instantly just slowed down a little bit to 10 km/hr.
This was followed, easily a second later, by HOM calmly saying “let’s just do a full stop for now”.
This was only the second time I had operated the brakes, the first time being the static test or explanation. Let’s just say we came to a stop real fast. And then slid a.. bit.
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The front of the locomotive passed the trailer just before we came to a full standstill. It nicely kicked it out of the way, clearing the track for whoever would come after us.
While the locomotive had zero damage the trailer was ready for some time old corrective maintenance.
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The front of the locomotive passed the trailer just before we came to a full standstill. It nicely kicked it out of the way, clearing the track for whoever would come after us.
While the locomotive had zero damage the trailer was ready for some time old corrective maintenance.
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So. We were clearly not super chill about this. So after securing no-one else was around we hopped in and returned to the workshop.In the workshop HOM found the technician under whose responsibility we were technically driving and explained the situation with a lot of laughs and a number of “it’ll be good memories”. With the three of us we, by car, went to check out the trailer and photograph the bad parking job.
And that was the story of how I drove a train. Was fun, would do again!
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So. We were clearly not super chill about this. So after securing no-one else was around we hopped in and returned to the workshop.In the workshop HOM found the technician under whose responsibility we were technically driving and explained the situation with a lot of laughs and a number of “it’ll be good memories”. With the three of us we, by car, went to check out the trailer and photograph the bad parking job.
And that was the story of how I drove a train. Was fun, would do again!
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Bit of an epilogue:a formal incident report was composed. A small detail I only learned today was that the technician-driver (now long retired) was actually on board with us (!)
Us being just me (!) (unnamed), a “trainee operator on an orientating ride” (!).
The trailer WAS actually placed in the wrong spot, and it was deemed not unlikely an actual trained driver would also have missed it.
HOM is now also retired and shared with me how much he enjoyed this ride
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Bit of an epilogue:a formal incident report was composed. A small detail I only learned today was that the technician-driver (now long retired) was actually on board with us (!)
Us being just me (!) (unnamed), a “trainee operator on an orientating ride” (!).
The trailer WAS actually placed in the wrong spot, and it was deemed not unlikely an actual trained driver would also have missed it.
HOM is now also retired and shared with me how much he enjoyed this ride
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@Pepijn may I guess? Was it a large steel company in a small country?
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Bit of an epilogue:a formal incident report was composed. A small detail I only learned today was that the technician-driver (now long retired) was actually on board with us (!)
Us being just me (!) (unnamed), a “trainee operator on an orientating ride” (!).
The trailer WAS actually placed in the wrong spot, and it was deemed not unlikely an actual trained driver would also have missed it.
HOM is now also retired and shared with me how much he enjoyed this ride
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note: If you're a train driver, I have the utmost respect for your skills and profession.
(and can I drive your train?)
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note: If you're a train driver, I have the utmost respect for your skills and profession.
(and can I drive your train?)
@Pepijn you sure get up to some weird shit on company time.
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@Pepijn you sure get up to some weird shit on company time.
A year or two after becoming a trainer / consultant I realised that with the retirement age somewhere between my 70th and 80th birthday I would get depressed if I didn't make my working days interesting for my brain.
One way seemed to use what is given to me: I decided that every time I'd visit a new company I'd try to be enthusiastic about what they do, and if at all possible, find a way to participate in an activity.
It's the one thing I miss by now primarily working from home.
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So. We were clearly not super chill about this. So after securing no-one else was around we hopped in and returned to the workshop.In the workshop HOM found the technician under whose responsibility we were technically driving and explained the situation with a lot of laughs and a number of “it’ll be good memories”. With the three of us we, by car, went to check out the trailer and photograph the bad parking job.
And that was the story of how I drove a train. Was fun, would do again!
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@Pepijn thanks for this story, it was a fun read!
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The front of the locomotive passed the trailer just before we came to a full standstill. It nicely kicked it out of the way, clearing the track for whoever would come after us.
While the locomotive had zero damage the trailer was ready for some time old corrective maintenance.
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A tale worthy of several beers.
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note: If you're a train driver, I have the utmost respect for your skills and profession.
(and can I drive your train?)
@Pepijn Awesome story. Kept me up past my bedtime.
Thank you!
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note: If you're a train driver, I have the utmost respect for your skills and profession.
(and can I drive your train?)
@Pepijn great start of my day
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Bit of an epilogue:a formal incident report was composed. A small detail I only learned today was that the technician-driver (now long retired) was actually on board with us (!)
Us being just me (!) (unnamed), a “trainee operator on an orientating ride” (!).
The trailer WAS actually placed in the wrong spot, and it was deemed not unlikely an actual trained driver would also have missed it.
HOM is now also retired and shared with me how much he enjoyed this ride
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@Pepijn
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