Re: Engineer for a Day on the Sumpter Valley
| April 27, 2014 04:54PM |
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No insult intended by me, but said tongue in cheek as I can't imagine anyone paying to run it
. 110 is the Plymouth 10 ton diesel critter. When I first got to run it as a brakeman to move cars in the yard it was kind of a thrill in various ways. We used it some years ago from time to time for fire patrol due to lack of an operable motor car and it was kinda fun. Also a bit unnerving when you ran too fast as it started rocking forward to back and once in a while while looking down through the opening in the floor at the front wheels, you would swear they were lifting off the rail.
. 110 is the Plymouth 10 ton diesel critter. When I first got to run it as a brakeman to move cars in the yard it was kind of a thrill in various ways. We used it some years ago from time to time for fire patrol due to lack of an operable motor car and it was kinda fun. Also a bit unnerving when you ran too fast as it started rocking forward to back and once in a while while looking down through the opening in the floor at the front wheels, you would swear they were lifting off the rail.
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