Re: "SD-40T's = Honorary Steam Locomotives"?? ... NOT!!!

Dave Peterson Wrote:
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> Yes, no diesels is nice, ... I always thought
> Tunnel Motors were neat enough to almost
> make it as honorary steam engines. (note I
> said "almost").


Sorry, Dave -

But IMNSHO the only diseasels to almost - just barely and maybe not even that - make it as Honorary Steam Locomotives were the Alco PA's.  When my dad first took us to Dunsmuir* in 1952 for his annual two- or three-week fishing vacation, the PA's were already pulling the Shasta Daylight, so in my mind they're not guilty of killing Steam like GP-9's and especially the SD-9's that started working on the Shasta Division in the spring of '54.   SFAIAC, all descendents of SD-9's are an accursed race, and I spit on them every chance I get.

- Russo

  * "Dunsmanure", according to my younger sister - who neither fished nor liked trains.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/12/2012 06:30PM by Russo Loco.