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Re: When Posting, $#it Happens too ...
Author: mook
Date: 09-06-2014 - 13:49
Why can't we edit posts! Sorry about the massive imperfection. Here's how it SHOULD have read. I did proofread but as with paper documents many errors aren't seen until too late.
BTW, even in the Alco days, you had to have something wrong with the engine to run constant heavy smoke.
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No it's not a conflict of interest. Being interested in railroads as a fan doesn't mean you have to accept everything they do as perfect.
Railroads don't have any more right than anybody else to pollute. One of the basic air quality rules (also, separately, a law in California and numerous other places), in force practically nationwide since the 1960s or early 70s, is "no visible emissions" - in most cases, you've got to be pretty bad to violate that rule, but Steinheimer's and others "honorary steam locomotive" Alco pictures would be clear evidence of violation if taken in the last 40 years or so. Short puffs at throttle changes are generally OK; simply shooting a black smoke plume skyward is not.
Highway and stationary engines are subject to the same rules. Construction equipment that isn't properly maintained has been fined, too. And why do you think the early ARB truck inspectors were called "smoke inspectors" (and maybe still are)?
BTW, even in the Alco days, you had to have something wrong with the engine to run constant heavy smoke.
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No it's not a conflict of interest. Being interested in railroads as a fan doesn't mean you have to accept everything they do as perfect.
Railroads don't have any more right than anybody else to pollute. One of the basic air quality rules (also, separately, a law in California and numerous other places), in force practically nationwide since the 1960s or early 70s, is "no visible emissions" - in most cases, you've got to be pretty bad to violate that rule, but Steinheimer's and others "honorary steam locomotive" Alco pictures would be clear evidence of violation if taken in the last 40 years or so. Short puffs at throttle changes are generally OK; simply shooting a black smoke plume skyward is not.
Highway and stationary engines are subject to the same rules. Construction equipment that isn't properly maintained has been fined, too. And why do you think the early ARB truck inspectors were called "smoke inspectors" (and maybe still are)?
