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eric

February 11, 2014 01:38PM

Registered: 13 years ago
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It is the last possibility, steam locomotives are basically evil and take great delight in humbling and embarassing the crew. Any time things are running smoothly and tempted to relax, it is time to watch out because you are just about to be bit in the rear.

With considerable grade or speed limit changes at all of the SVRy crossings, we end up whistling with one hand and adjusting throttle and train brakes with the other. All the time watching for people and auto traffic. Very high workload for a few moments, then back to steady running mainly monitoring the locomotive do it's thing.

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Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS Part II	Dave Peterson	February 08, 2014 06:27PM
Re: Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS Part II	Earl	February 10, 2014 09:03PM
Re: Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS Part II	Dave Peterson	February 10, 2014 09:29PM
Re: Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS Part II	Casey Akin	February 10, 2014 10:55PM
Re: Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS Part II	Gavin Hamilton	February 11, 2014 04:27AM
Re: Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS Part II	Earl	February 11, 2014 07:56AM
Re: Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS Part II	MD Ramsey	February 11, 2014 09:14AM
Re: Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS Part II	John Bush	February 11, 2014 09:41AM
Re: Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS Part II	Kelly Anderson	February 11, 2014 12:29PM
Re: Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS Part II	eric	February 11, 2014 01:38PM

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