JonMyrlennBailey
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How were two or more locomotives, even in the early days of steam and the first double-headers, per train kept in sync?
Sure you could have an engineer in the cab of each engine at the controls but how would the lead engine communicate with the helper to add more steam or add more brake?
On a racing boat, a shell, one has a leader or coxswain to call cadence to keep all the rowers in sync. On a multiple-unit train, the goal is to have engines working together
and not against one another.
Sure you could have an engineer in the cab of each engine at the controls but how would the lead engine communicate with the helper to add more steam or add more brake?
On a racing boat, a shell, one has a leader or coxswain to call cadence to keep all the rowers in sync. On a multiple-unit train, the goal is to have engines working together
and not against one another.
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