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Originally Posted by Foghut
I wonder if it's anything like the story I heard about the Class 66 purchase options. Alledgedly the people at London Ontario offer 7 levels of cab comfort - needless to say most British locos have level 1. I expect the accountants over here have calculated that it's cheaper to medically retire a deaf driver or two rather than fork out on expensive sound insulation.
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There's one thing, You know you've done an 11.5 hour shift when you've been on a 66 for most of it.
The noise is absolutley abismal, you are thrown about from one side to the other, cab doors open on the move and when you are in the little cab (No 2 end) and the fans start up you just can just about hear the vigilance when it goes off, the heaters have only two temps extremly cold or extremly hot.
Apart from that they are grrrrrrrrreat, they do tend to keep going. A fault booked at happening at 75mph you know nowt been done when it come out tested on shed no fault found.
Class 67s although a bit quieter in the cab, practically the same driver comfort level. The doors to the engine room tend to open on the move normally going up hill in notch 8 (full power) and because we are sat in the middle of the cab we can't reach them to close so we are deaf by the time we can shut off power a bit.
Oh the trials and tribulations of an EWS driver
Three things a railway fitter must be able to write before being passed out:
1. tested on shed no fault found NFF
2. For home depot attention
3. Unable to fault.
Les