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   On Wed, 11/26/2025 7:14 AM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   One of the guys used to dress like that. With the coveralls.   
      
   And no, it wasn't really a "sunlit" kind of job. There   
   wasn't a lot of goofing off.   
      
   It's sunlit now, as they dropped a significant part of the buildings   
   with dynamite years ago.   
      
   It's funny how sites like this can exist, and later ? There seem   
   to be no good pictures.   
      
      Paul   
      
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