Bob, this brings up a question I've had on my mind for a long time.
One evening I was pacing a SP local powered by a couple of well worn GE
units. One was running with a nearly continious flame coming from it's
stack. What causes this and all the sparks you mention?
Bob Werre
>
> > _________________________________________________
>
> When I was a conductor on a Santa Fe local out of Joliet, IL, one
> Sunday we handled 98 cars from Joliet to Lockport with one 500-Class
> Fairbanks-Morse switch engine, that's uphill to boot. We didn't go too
> fast, and sparks from the exhaust were setting the ROW on fire, but we
> were moving. I don't think I've ever seen a switch engine that could
> handle what those engines did
>
> Bob Nicholson
>
>
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