This site features daily historical railroad posts from the Big Bend/Columbia Plateau region of Washington state. As a personal site, this is my online filing cabinet of interesting things I've come across about railroading in the area. Thanks for stopping by!
I can just picture that SD9 trundling down the line, the 567 chanting away, at 15mph.
ReplyDeleteHoping it doesn't derail...
ReplyDeleteExactly!
ReplyDeleteI heard traction was an issue too in the Spring, tall grass growing over the rails turned into grease basically!
In Fred Hyde's book, it mentions the Marcellus turn having to triple the hill out of Ruff.
ReplyDeleteYikes!
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