Rteetz
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They started hiring for trains a while ago.
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News Tomorrowland Speedway and Walt Disney World Railroad to be impacted by TRON construction at the Magic Kingdom
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ToTBellHop
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Has training begun for all roles yet? They’ll need to start training the CMs who will be in the stations.
EricsBiscuit
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I just saw a horrendous video of Lily pulling out of the Fantasyland station. If you don’t know, there’s a grade pulling out of there and it can be somewhat difficult to pull out if that station, especially with a train full of guests. If the engineer isn’t skilled, then the wheels will just keep spinning and the train will barely move. This is what happened in that video. It doesn’t reflect well on their training and it can be harmful to the locomotives.
TrainsOfDisney
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If the wheels were just left to keep spinning that’s terrible for the locomotives and the track and it can be very dangerous.
Rteetz
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I’m not completely sure on that front.
For a moment, I thought, why is that person quoting themself?
Disone
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Will you please try to stay on track
Andrew M
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While wheel slipping is obviously not ideal, how else are you supposed to practice pulling that train with that locomotive uphill from a full stop? This is exactly what training is for, to practice getting a feel for the real thing on an empty train.
These locomotives are light enough that some slow speed slipping isn't going to burn through a tire like a full size mainline locomotive would.
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Goofyernmost
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There have been recent video's of the trains making short runs, even completely around now as a warm up for starting them daily.
JoeCamel
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The trains, the Goofys, the green backgrounds all run together for me
TrainsOfDisney
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You can’t tell the Roger Broggie from the Ward Kimball!?
EricsBiscuit
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Different railroads haha!
Yes and to make matters worse the engineer was waving to the camera and let it go on for what felt like an eternity! They are going to ruin the locomotives if they can’t figure this out.
TrainsOfDisney
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We aren’t talking about a normal slip, that will happen from time to time on any railroad. But not properly reacting to that slip is bad for the tracks, the locomotives, and is potentially dangerous. We don’t want to have a blown piston and then have management say “there is steam under pressure!? What! Switch to electric immediately!”
Disone
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Link to the video?
EricsBiscuit
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The site that shall not be named’s ig
eddie104
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I should’ve known it was them who decided to post it.
solidyne
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Did the engineer appear to be a Millennial?
More brain drain at the mouse house...
TrainsOfDisney
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Yes, a young lady who clearly doesn’t understand how to operate a locomotive.
It’s very concerning to see.
EricsBiscuit
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No respect for the history they’re working with. The legacy they’re carrying on. Unfortunately at DLP I experienced the same thing this past August~. They had to shunt the train back and try to go forward several times to get it moving. It seems that Disney is forgetting how to operate a railroad. Even at DL the engineers, which are supposed to be the best of the best considering the massive yearly bonus they receive at DLRR, aren’t handling grades right anymore.