Hot Water Wrote:
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> Bent Rails Wrote:
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> > Never mind the likely clearance issues -
> There
> > won't be much room left in the tunnel to supply
> > air from, even if it did fit through. The damn
> > thing will probably starve for combustion air
> in
> > Donner's tunnels, and suffocate the crew as well
> -
> > unless they run it backwards.
>
> Gee, that didn't happen when UP 844 and Challenger
> 3985 doubleheaded through that "big tunnel" at the
> top, back in 1999, enroute to Railfair '99. The
> damned GE diesel tripped the ground relay,
> unloaded and then died, so the Engineer on 3985
> had to go to full throttle in order to maintain
> track speed. The 4014 is no bigger than 3985, just
> a lot longer. Also, the crews of both 844 and 3985
> were issued standard RR "air hoods" just in case
> of such a situation, and they all worked very
> well.


Must have got hot real quick in that tunnel.