From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 26/11/2025 10:35 pm, Paul wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
   Is that you standing by the Cart, Paul, or are you sitting in the shade   
   under the tree?? ;-P   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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