BOB2 Wrote:
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> Slow orders, often with miles of 10 mph operation,
> were common in the Eel River Canyon, especially in
> the rainy seasons, and for summer maintenance,
> which never ended on that stretch of the railroad.
> I only went out to the Canyon once when the
> trains were running, in the fall during the late
> 70's, and the one train I saw was crawling through
> miles of slow orders.
>
> I seem to recall a 25 mph for much of that segment
> from one of the timetables I used to have.
> Tonnage on the lumber trains was heavy, power was
> weak, curvature was severe, and there were some
> pretty good grades on all of the NWP, so nothing
> was going to move very fast on the NWP, and the
> Canyon was probably some of the slowest running.
>
>
> Once the SMART project is done, it will make
> possible some of the highest freight or passenger
> speeds ever seen on the NWP......

25 without the slow orders