Them Ol' Steem injines

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That wasn’t done as a regular thing; probably when rail conditions were less than needed.  Nobody offered to push me out of town with two GP30s and 20,000 tons . . .

EdKing

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Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 3:39 PM
To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org ; Jeffery Hensley 
Subject: Them Ol' Steem injines

  
ED,

Old head yard engineers in Williamson have told me about pushing westbound loads to help get them started out of the yard and cut off on the fly at the westend of the yard.  Some of the stories I’ve heard are pretty interesting.

-Jeff Hensley.

 

Class A engines didn?t start the 16,000 ton trains at Williamson all at once.  They took full advantage of the slack, too.  And that practice was carried on in diesel days; faced with getting away from Williamson (and it was practically dead level) with two GP30s and a 20,000 ton train, there was no way you could start them with the slack stretched.  You jockeyed back and forth until you had them all coming, and then advanced the throttle as much as you could.  Starting them a car at a time was a lot easier than trying to start them all at once, as had been learned long ago.



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