CALNNC posted:Well, other than nebulous explanations, there were a few answers that were informative. Something along the lines of this is what I was looking for, and it does not end up with only the need to know your territory:
On another online forum you were told repeatedly EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE!
When are you going to learn?
I will say this:
We often pushed over the entire district, but mostly only over 2/3's of the district. As a pusher my job was to push. I pushed as hard as I needed to push...UP TO THE SPEED LIMIT that we were in. Otherwise, I pushed just hard enough to maintain the speed limit and keep the slack bunched and not to make things hard on the head end man in controlling the train.
