Re: Ok

michael Wrote:
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> WilliamDiehl Wrote:
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> > Ahh...but it is live steam... on our Railroad's
> > Polar Express, we have an Alco FA-4 on one end
> and
> > an EMD F40FH on the other...no steam
> > whatsoever...we even took all the steam heating
> > out of the coaches
>
> Well That SUCKS!!!


The diesels or the steam heat?

I'm not sorry at all to see steam heat go away, not after a trip on the North Coast back in '78 where we all wound up huddled in the lounge from about Missoula all the way to Minneapolis 'cause the steam lines were frozen up. Every stop they thawed 'em out (add 1/2 hour delay) and by the time we were ten miles out they were frozen again. No wonder the GN stayed with Baker Heaters so long!

Hank, who would have settled for a bloody coal stove at that point!