[steam_tech] Re: TRAINS.com latest- can steam make a comeback?

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With the air hose open on the other end of the train? Most trains  
won't move with diesel power with no air pressure in the trainline!

Walt

On May 29, 2008, at 7:57 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> "I was told by some old car knockers at Petersburg, VA that an A  

> could couple up to 100+ cars at Seacoast and take them  away with  

> the angle cock open on the other end and the air hose sticking   

> straight out and go to Crewe!!"

>

> Walt,

>     There's nothing miraculous about that at all. Any engine today  

> that can haul the 100+ cars can do the same exact thing.

> Jimmy Lisle

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