Congrats on Author of the Day!

Please do! I don't want to be the only Balto/Railroader
Author out there! (It gets kinda Lonely)

Very well done, I wonderful story in which I enjoyed
tremendously, Like I was back in the cab of my own units for a few moments! but there are a few things that if you really
want to be a stickler about:

I thought that
Conway had ground air, as in a compressor being located on
the ground and the train already having air before the
locomotives were attached, that way Balto wouldn't have had
to wait on an air build up.

I also noted the
missing Brake test. In which Kodi should have had Balto make
a 20 pound reduction then walk the entire train and make
shire the brakes were applying on every car. This should have been done evry time the train stoped insted of Kodi just "takeing a walk" This lack of a
brake test would have gotten both Balto and especially Kodi
being the conductor, a pink slip!

Also, unless
the rules in this district are different, the Piedmont
Division rulebook states that when a motor vehicle is struck
by any peace of moving equipment, the crew is NOT allowed to
leave the cab or move the train. Kodi should have stayed
with Balto and waited for the authorities. By moving the
train he has damaged the scene for the report later on in
which it must be confirmed were the train stopped and were
the car was hit.

Now I understand aloting this
stuff becuse in my own railroad stories I alot most of the
radeo talk and yard preperations, for time and becuse I
don't want to lose my aduinces interst on the story. Its a
very realistic modern day railroad run. A few FRA violatons
and I must admit...Balto is lucky to have a unit with a
working tolet! Non of the Units at SERX have any form of a
working tolit system!

I am looking forward
for more of you modern Railroad stories!

Railwolf, Conway does indeed have ground air. I should of
reworded it different. More specifically when Balto is doing
the air test. As for Kodi having to walk the train to make
sure the breaks are working, that is what the carman
does.
When 11E hits the SUV, the only movement
afterword is when they stop and when they are cleared to
leave.
As for toliets, under PA State law, each train
must have a working toliet in the lead motor.

I dont know if Ill do anymore. Just kind of winged this
one but who knows. I may. Dunno.