Re: Tonnage train in a storm on the C&TS

Earl Wrote:
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> Txhighballer Wrote:
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> > Sounds like a trip up Fairchild with 500 many
> > years ago....
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> Times about 20....
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> Nobody at the TSR has a clue about working an
> engine hard for more than about 5 minutes at a
> time, let alone for two hours and forty-five
> minutes. At that does not include going back to
> Cresco and doing the upper half of the hill
> again!
>
> I talk of this stuff to them and I get stares of
> total disbelief.


I'll bet! Fairchild and Oakland are steep and relatively short, but that's the only grades they know. I've ridden in the cab on Grand Canyon and the whole attitude of the run changes once you get into the meat of the grade...but it was awesome!