Hi Denis,

Mick Duncan told me about this very many years ago.

From what I remember it was invented by late Alan Jungwirth.

The exact procedure was take first notch to engage the line breaker.

Then proceed very rapidly to the full series position. That would spin the wheels and thus make the current drain much less than if the wheels were still gripping the rails. Thus the line breaker overload would not be activated.

Then proceed to full parallel while the wheels were still spinning.

While I knew of this procedure, I never once considered experimenting with this when I had the option to do so as a driver.

Regards,

Richard

On 13 Jul 2019, at 11:44 pm, DENIS ELWOOD d.elwood@...> wrote:

A well-known former MMTB driver once told me that it was possible to notch--up a tram as follows:
series 1
series 2
full parallel

a) How can this be done without tripping the line breaker, and
b) One assumes there were no pax in the tram at the time.

Cheers
Denis Elwood