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Reply to "Why does the Big Boy need a diesel helper? The answer from Ed himself."

@feet posted:

Whatever the problem is you'd think they would correct it.

That's a good point. You would think that if there was some sort of issue that it would have been corrected by now.

The facts that we know of are: #1) UP runs a diesel with 4014 and other railroads running steam generally do not. #2) We have Ed's statement as to why they do this.

I don't have the technical knowledge to definitively say that there is a real reason why the UP uses a diesel and that Ed is covering up that reason but it is an interesting discussion. It is my hope that there is nothing wrong with the locomotive mechanically and (speculating here) that maybe Ed feels an attachment to it so he doesn't want to push it hard and therefore have the diesel do some of the work? Please don't bite my head off here. This situation is strange to me and as I said I am just speculating.

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