Just to be clear, I was not running the locomotive on this climb. 765 engineer Gary Bensman was at the throttle and Jason Sobcynski was firing.
And yes...someone DID get a shot right at the top of the hill...I did! Here's a video clip I shot with my I-phone right at the top of the hill where she finally starts to accelerate. You'll note that Gary gives me a thumbs up as they go by the camera.
Jason is purposely crowding the fire, thus all the smoke. He's crowding the fire so he can fire "over the pops" providing more than 250 psi of steam for Gary to work with.
That Magnificent MachineTM of ours got down to less than ONE MPH, but she never slipped and she never stalled.
