Re: Georgetown Loop - time to turn the pressure up?
| October 08, 2007 08:21PM |
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John Bush Wrote:
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> One day before the high bridge was rebuilt when we
> used to stop at "Upper Georgetown" I was firing
> for Charlie after lunch (Mike you know what that
> means) when he started for Silver Plume with the
> #44 still in reverse. Whe the train started to
> roll back he opened the throttle even more and we
> really started to head for the empty bridge
> abutment. I jumped over to his side and big holed
> the brakes. We stopped before we went off the end
> of track and the conductor never said a word.
> Charlie said thank you and we headed up the hill.
> Neither of us got off the engine at the photo stop
> (the pin truss bridge) and by the time we got to
> Silver Plume my legs had stopped shaking enough to
> get down out of the cab.
I guess safty has not gone down hill to far with Railstar?
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>
> One day before the high bridge was rebuilt when we
> used to stop at "Upper Georgetown" I was firing
> for Charlie after lunch (Mike you know what that
> means) when he started for Silver Plume with the
> #44 still in reverse. Whe the train started to
> roll back he opened the throttle even more and we
> really started to head for the empty bridge
> abutment. I jumped over to his side and big holed
> the brakes. We stopped before we went off the end
> of track and the conductor never said a word.
> Charlie said thank you and we headed up the hill.
> Neither of us got off the engine at the photo stop
> (the pin truss bridge) and by the time we got to
> Silver Plume my legs had stopped shaking enough to
> get down out of the cab.
I guess safty has not gone down hill to far with Railstar?
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