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Tinplate Art posted:
Rich: THANK YOU for your explanation. My post was my response to an earlier deviation in this thread about an engineer making it hard on the fireman by not properly hooking up the valve cutoff. My comments were based on my personal experiences running steam engines at TVRM under the guidance of seasoned steam men back in 1984. Running in the corner at speed is hard on the machinery, the fireman and wastes coal!

Art,

For what it's worth, I did NOT say the Engineer was "running her in the corner"! On a steep, ascending grade with 50+ empty hoppers, enroute to the Widen, W.Va. coal mine, simply 3 -4 notches TOWARD the corner was sufficient to properly teach me about firing AND how to properly run a steam locomotive. The same is true for either SP 4449, UP 844, or UP 3985, not to mention NKP 765.

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