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   On Wed, 11/26/2025 4:51 AM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 26/11/2025 12:22 am, Paul wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 11/25/2025 2:36 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-10-08 13:16, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>> On 8/10/2025 8:14 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >>>>> A relatively recent modification is that there is an specific   
   >>>>> license for automated shift cars. But a person with such a   
   >>>>> license is forbidden from driving a standard sift/gear car.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Similarly, here in Victoria, if you take your TEST in an   
   >>>> Automatic car, you are licenced to drive an Automatic car .... at   
   >>>> least initially.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Our licences are for Ten years. I think, at the end of that ten   
   >>>> years, you are deemed to be competent to drive either a Manual or   
   >>>> Automatic car, so can drive either.   
   >>>   
   >>> They expect you to magically learn? :-)   
   >>   
   >> I learned how to drive a standard, while driving a tractor and wagon   
   >> train at work.   
   >   
   > Oww! Were you a Wagon Train Boss, Paul?? Wagons HOOOOOOO!! ;-P   
   >   
   >> One of my summer jobs. Most of my work was "lifting stuff", and only   
   >> a couple times per shift, did the tractor need to be moved from A to   
   >> B.   
      
   This is the scale of the carts in my train. Up to six of these.   
      
      https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/riegger/riegger171.jpg   
      
   Look in the lower right corner of the picture for the cart.   
      
   The cart is likely to be that high, so as to match the floor   
   level of the train car it pulls up beside. There should be a tongue   
   on one end of the cart, that fastens to a coupler on the   
   other end of the cart. When the tongue is in the upright position,   
   it can be applying friction brakes to the front two wheels. That helps   
   prevent your train from rolling away, when you disconnect the tractor   
   from the front tongue.   
      
   And rolling stock like that, is as old as the hills, and   
   Adam and Eve used to haul those around. But good solid construction.   
   You don't have to worry about it falling apart.   
      
      Paul   
      
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