yankingeorgia Wrote:
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> One fanboy on the UP Facebook page said this
> ridiculous babying is the way she should be run
> and that the APL stack train "stunt" is why 3985
> is not running today. Then he went on to disparage
> Steve Lee and the rest of the previous crew.
>
> Bravo Sierra!
>
> First off, that's ludicrous. If that were the
> case, and these things are that "delicate" then
> put them back in museums where they'll be "safe"
> and be done with it.
>
> I'm happy that I have many hours of video that I
> shot of big steam from the '80s and '90s, when
> guys like Steve Lee and his counterparts knew how
> to show what those machines could do.

So, according to the foamboy, responding to a major
customer's request to pull one of the customer's
trains with a steam locomotive was a "stunt"?

I'm sure the people at what was then APL would be
surprised to hear that.

That event occurred in the early 1990's, IIRC. so
this same idiot claims that after another 20 years
of service by the 3985, it was no longer fit to
run solely because of that stack train "stunt" from
20 years prior?

What would we do without experts such as this fool?