Mark MPT Wrote:
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> I'm wondering if it just isn't how 493 always
> sounded or if they did something to 493 that they
> didn't do to 473. Not all oil burners have a muted
> sound. Some are quite loud actually. Here is a
> video I shot at the Black Hills Central Railroad
> last July. 108, the engine in the video, is one of
> the loudest steam locomotives I have ever heard
> and it also burns oil. The second video is of
> SL&RG 18 on the Rio Grand Scenic, also an oil
> burner. Both are quite loud and oil burners.
> (Second video isn't mine)
>
I made a new thread to compare 493 in 1967 to 2020.
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