Re: Smoke Along The Tracks: Update.
| January 27, 2015 12:21PM |
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Chris Walker Wrote:
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> Interesting reading of this sorry saga. Also
> shows in the wording of the article of the
> World-wide difficulty that Reporters have in
> relating to writing about Train operations.
>
> "The coal-fired steam locomotive, carrying more
> than 400 passengers, normally hauled seven to 10
> carriages."
>
> There's your problem right there, having the
> passengers, all 400 of them, on the Locomotive.
I've seen pics of trains in India where it appears that there are 400 people riding on the locomotive.
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> Interesting reading of this sorry saga. Also
> shows in the wording of the article of the
> World-wide difficulty that Reporters have in
> relating to writing about Train operations.
>
> "The coal-fired steam locomotive, carrying more
> than 400 passengers, normally hauled seven to 10
> carriages."
>
> There's your problem right there, having the
> passengers, all 400 of them, on the Locomotive.
I've seen pics of trains in India where it appears that there are 400 people riding on the locomotive.
| Subject | Author | Posted |
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Chris Walker | January 24, 2015 02:04AM |
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Russo Loco | January 24, 2015 12:52PM |
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Chris Walker | January 27, 2015 11:03AM |
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guymonmd | January 27, 2015 12:21PM |
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