HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> 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.

It sure as hell did!!!!!