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Kind'a curious. Who decides to take a train through areas like depicted here?
Would the engineer do so "on his own hook?" Or are orders received from higher up to "risk it?"
Nothing new:
Plus, in May 1965 when the Mississippi River flooded, the CB&Q used Mikado 4960 to pull trains through flooded track at Savanna, Wisconsin.
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In fact, this was the plot of one of my favorite Donald Duck comics ever. Uncle Scrooge's fancy new streamliner was stuck in a flood which shorted out the electric motors; Donald wound up pushing the train out with an old steam loco that Scrooge had decided to scrap...
Mitch
M. Mitchell Marmel posted:In fact, this was the plot of one of my favorite Donald Duck comics ever. Uncle Scrooge's fancy new streamliner was stuck in a flood which shorted out the electric motors; Donald wound up pushing the train out with an old steam loco that Scrooge had decided to scrap...
Mitch
I remember that one, too! I also remember the one in which a streamliner was caught in a blizzard, while Huey, Dewey and Louie figured out a way to retrieve it, using their toy trains as a guide!
Was Carl Barks a railfan?
