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Earl

January 05, 2019 03:23PM

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I don't think 476 could handle that train. In the 1960's-70's a K28 could muscle 12 cars to Silverton, but mostly ran 11 car trains. When the vestibule cars and concession cars got rebuilt with steel sides in 1978, they cut the train down to 10 cars as the added steel made them even heavier. Nowadays there is even more steel under the passenger fleet, plus heating systems, etc. I think K28's are limited to 9 cars. It looked like 481 hand enough to deal with pulling that 12 car train, including a boat anchor in the form of car B-2 on the rear.

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Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	James Parfrey	January 02, 2019 04:49PM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	Tomstp	January 02, 2019 06:42PM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	Olaf Rasmussen	January 02, 2019 09:40PM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	Husker Hank	January 02, 2019 09:59PM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	tomc	January 03, 2019 09:50AM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	Earl	January 03, 2019 10:53AM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	James Parfrey	January 04, 2019 10:48PM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	James Parfrey	January 03, 2019 01:34PM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	JoeK	January 04, 2019 08:47AM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	Tom Peterman	January 04, 2019 09:08AM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton	Russo Loco	January 05, 2019 03:52PM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	Earl	January 05, 2019 03:23PM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	rehunn	January 05, 2019 04:24PM
Re: Christmas on the Durango & Silverton (video)	gregcoit	January 06, 2019 12:29PM

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