[rdamurphy]

Actually, not "left and right", but clockwise for increase and counter-clockwise for decrease.

Also applies to the world of nuts and bolts: "Lefty-loosey - righty-tighty."

Robert

[Sid P.]

But: note the direction of the throttle lever movement in the Dash-9 and similar cabs---doesn't match "A" or "D" either. That's the way the world is...

[markus_GE]

And to add to JorD1´s theory: In the older American "standard cabs", the throttle increases from right to left.

BTW, now that we´re talking cabs: Why on earth does pulling the throttle towards you (against the usual direction of travel) increase power on a "safety cab" loco?

Cheers, Markus

[JorD1]

If you slip or faint you will fall forward and close the throtle??

[rdamurphy]

On an aircraft, however, normally, you would push the throttle forward to accelerate...

Robert

[markus_GE]

If you "slip your faint", you won´t silence the alerter in time and go into ermergency, which will cut power, usually. So, that´s probably npt quite the reason. Also, alerters were more than common (required?) when the safety cab we know nowadays was introduced... So, nothing left over from before-alerter times.

Good thoughts, nevertheless :thumbup3:

Cheers, Markus

[hytek1999]

I thought it was odd too when I first got MSTS. But I got used to it. Now I just recently bought a copy of TS2014 and the controls are reversed. Since THAT game doesn't allow me to change the keyboard controls, I've had to switch OR to match it. It's taken a while, but I finally got used to it.