Re: Winter 2021 On The Durango and Silverton (Video Content)

Jimr260 Wrote:
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> William, fantastic video . Perfect composition
> and editing. I especially liked hearing 482 pull
> up the hill - near perfect valve timing and what a
> haunting whistle. VERY GOOD!!

Thanks. And I definitely made sure to sync that downhill whistle at Shalona over the drone footage because of that whistle.



> BTW, have you had an
> opportunity to run an ALC-42 yet? If s\\o, how are
> they compared to the P-42's?

We haven't got to play with, nor even see a ALC-42 in person here on the Chief. The couple that are on the property have been bouncing between Chicago and Philadelphia/Washington for Crew Familiarization and Press Photo Ops. Right now Minneapolis crew base is the first 'outlying' crew base to see one, as 300 (the 1st one off the line) was seen to be dropped off there on the Builder. No clue when we'll even see one for that purpose down here. We'll see how they do, hopefully they have better dynamic brakes than the P-42's, other than that (without extended range, P42 dynamics effort tapers down a lot at low speeds, meaning all our trains drop down Glorieta and Raton with a set of air).