Seeing the post of the old timers operating trains in their Sunday Best, I thought I would post this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uLwV8oXLHg
To me it makes since, but it was made way before the days of the freeway. Today, all you need to drive on a freeway is a fist and a middle finger.
Anyway, this video combines four of my passions: history, model trains, real trains, and classic (or antique) cars.
Enjoy.
Fist and a middle finger driving sounds like Los Angeles freeway driving. Been a few years time since I’ve driven on the LA freeways! My newest haunt is Washington DC but I haven’t seen fist and fingers here so far - maybe a different culture or just too much traffic for it to matter.
Naw, the American motoring public is rude and crude anywhere you drive except maybe your driveway.
Bob
I tend to treat my pickup like a locomotive - minimum power, coasting (where appropriate) with zero throttle, long, slow stops with minimum braking. I also call (traffic) signals - much to my wife’s annoyance when she’s the driver of her RAV4.
Does this help anything? It certainly helps my fuel consumption, which is about 10% better than the original EPA estimate for city driving. It also helps my maintenance expenses by increasing the distance between brake overhauls. Not bad for a vehicle approaching its seventeenth birthday.
Does it improve safety? The only time the truck was out of service my wife was driving. The other driver was judged (in traffic court) to be at fault. Other than that, three bumps. The one in the front fender was made by a deer that picked the wrong time to jump out of a hedgerow. Both of the ones behind the rear axle happened when the vehicle was parked and unoccupied. As for the driver, I’ve been driving for half a century, and have yet to accumulate a single ‘point.’
Not bragging, just careful.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I drive my car like a Fighter Pilot!
Just kidding, any more I drive pretty slow to help my MPG.
One of the better steam videos I have seen. Guess we need to start wearing ties when we run trains.
Cuda Ken