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J.B.Bane

January 24, 2011 08:07PM

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This is a short anecdote that illustrates what Kevin is talking about: I was fireman on SVRy 19 one day when I noticed we were slowing down for a reason unknown to me. I started making necessary adjustments to the fire. I looked over and the engineer was dropping the johnson bar a few notches muttering something like "what's going on here", but we are still slowing down. We both realized about the same moment that the throttle had closed on it's own. The spring on the pawl had broke. Much safer to have it close than be overbalanced to open!

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Balanced Throttle	Beau Brandstetter	January 24, 2011 10:23AM
Re: Balanced Throttle	Earl	January 24, 2011 10:53AM
Re: Balanced Throttle	Mark Yeamans	January 25, 2011 02:19AM
Re: Balanced Throttle	MD Ramsey	January 25, 2011 07:08AM
Re: Balanced Throttle	Mark Yeamans	January 26, 2011 12:36AM
Re: Balanced Throttle	Dan Robirds	January 24, 2011 11:20AM
Re: Balanced Throttle	Tom Moungovan	January 24, 2011 11:45AM
Re: Balanced Throttle-I think	kwilcomb	January 24, 2011 05:27PM
Re: Balanced Throttle-I think	J.B.Bane	January 24, 2011 08:07PM
Re: Balanced Throttle?	Tom Moungovan	January 24, 2011 09:30PM
Re: Balanced Throttle?	Beau Brandstetter	January 25, 2011 09:05AM

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