Hot Water posted:EBT Jim posted:Hot Water posted:EBT Jim posted:Very cool, Western Maryland! Wishing you guys continued success in your work.
How about an east coast - west coast Mallet meetup someday, somewhere .... when UP 4014 is running?
UP 4014 is NOT a Mallet!
Whoa! Bold font in red!
My mistake .... it is not a Mallet.
How about a meetup of east coast - west coast articulated's some day?
Don't count on THAT either, as the UP 4000 class locomotives were/are WAY TOO big to venture eastward. When the UP Challenger 3985 visited the Clinchfield RR, the clearances were even a bit tight for her, as she nicked a hopper car on a siding in a sharp curve.
...which is a perfect example of knowledge being lost over 40 years. In the steam era, Clinchfield management knew exactly what the tolerances of the Challengers were. Twenty years after the fact when they needed to extend a siding around a "sharp" curve to accommodate longer trains, the clearance concerns of a Challenger never entered into the equation. Bring one back, the knowledge is lost, and you end up with a sideswipe.
Kevin
