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Tomstp

July 25, 2017 10:26AM

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Lets say that 463 is to be the train's engine going up to Cumbres with 7 cars and the 488 is on front of the double header. I would imagine that 488 would be doing the "full throttle" and 463's engineer would be furnishing enough power to "take care of his weight".. Would that be correct? If not could you explain just what the engineer of 463 is doing? I have always been curious about that.

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Question for Earl on double heading	Tomstp	July 25, 2017 10:26AM
Re: Question for Earl on double heading	Herb Kelsey	July 25, 2017 08:58PM
Re: Question for Earl on double heading	Russ489	July 25, 2017 09:25PM
Re: Question for Earl on double heading	Greg Scholl	July 26, 2017 07:55AM
Re: Question for Earl on double heading	Tomstp	July 26, 2017 09:34AM
Re: Question for Earl on double heading	Linn W. Moedinger	July 26, 2017 10:38AM
Re: Question for Earl on double heading	Tomstp	July 26, 2017 11:56AM
Re: Question for Earl on double heading	DAN58590	July 26, 2017 03:30PM
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Re: Question for Earl on double heading	Earl	July 27, 2017 08:43AM
Doubleheading versus pushing	John West	July 27, 2017 11:19AM
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Re: Doubleheading versus pushing	rehunn	July 27, 2017 02:24PM
Re: Doubleheading versus pushing	DAN58590	July 27, 2017 06:01PM
Re: Question for Earl on double heading	Earl	July 29, 2017 09:33AM

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