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Chris Webster

September 19, 2007 05:34PM

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Tim Schreiner Wrote:

> what historically accurate engine is going to pull
> these new "historically accurate" steel cars?
>
> No one is saying that running the train in winter
> is historically wrong, but it is going to be
> financially wrong. IF they can't keep the train
> running in the summer. How are we going to expect
> to see it run then??

I presume that a regular winter train would have to be pulled by a diesel(s). (If they did six or more roundtrips a day with a steamer, wouldn't the snow stop looking white?)

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