December 23, 2010 03:48PM
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Thanks, Greg! That does make sense.
However Mike's question got me to thinking: did the RRs make practice run(s) of a powered rotary in the fall to make certain everything was working and to familiarize the crew, who would be looking at the track in a different way, thinking about where snow was going to be bad rather than where one would have to speed up or slow down in a normal train run?
The current issue of *Trains* has an article on the modern US rotaries. The 4 stored in Roseville for Donner have not been called out since, IIRC, 1998 and the brass are concerned that the rotary knowledge will disappear when the men who last worked them retire.
Who were the crews for the rotaries? Were they regular engineers and firemen? Were they selected for their skills or was it a bid position, based on seniority?
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