Talk:Train driver/Archives/2014

"Train handling" needs help

Several times in the "Train handling" section, terms are used which are not defined, and assume the reader is already an expert in the subject. For example, what do these terms mean and why are they important?

• "bleeding the air off the locomotives brakes"
• "locomotives brakes" vs. "dynamic brakes" vs. "train brakes" -- what is the difference and why does it exist?
• "a fully charged brake pipe"
• "a train descends a grade on the air brake alone" -- as opposed to what?

68.110.107.158 (talk) 02:49, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

• • You may want to read railway air brake and dynamic braking (I haven't, so it may be utterly useless). --NE2 02:59, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

The entire section assumes that the reader lives in the United States. I think it should be a bit more international. Cheetah88 (talk) 21:42, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

• The section seems really out of place. It's an article on train drivers, but that doesn't mean it should have a "how to drive a train" section. People won't be reading this article to learn how to drive a train, they'll go to train driver school or whatever they do. This section should probably be removed and replaced with a section that says how people become train drivers. 58.7.200.73 (talk) 22:14, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

I found it quite useful and think it should stay. It is certainly not designed to train people, it's for train afficionados. Rjensen (talk) 23:55, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

It might be interesting, but "train handling" is not really on topic for an article about "railroad engineers". Like an article about taxi drivers woulnd't tell you how to operate a taxi. The information could have its own article called "train handling". Then train afficionados can read about train handling there, and this article could be about railroad engineers. 58.6.136.110 (talk) 11:55, 19 June 2014 (UTC)