Hail the 4014 Wrote:
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> Mike Stimpson Wrote:
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> > > "a locomotive that can't even pull its own
> > weight unless its on flat territory and even
> that
> > might be giving it to much credit."
> >
> > Right...
> >
> > You're sure not here to ask an honest question
> or
> > to have an honest conversation. You're here to
> > rant about 4014 in the disguise of asking an
> > honest question.
> >
> > For someone who doesn't like the 4014, you seem
> to
> > spend an incredible amount of time obsessing
> about
> > it and posting hate about it. You might be
> > happier finding something else to do with your
> > time.
> >
> > As for the "substance" of your comment... I was
> > trackside when 4014 when up Archer Hill. It had
> a
> > diesel behind it and 21 (empty) freight cars.
> > Yes, not much for a Big Boy, but I can tell you
> > that the diesel was doing nothing. It was just
> a
> > paperweight. (Well, paperweight with dynamic
> > brakes when they got to the other side of the
> > hill...)
> >
> > So: Factually, you are full of it.
> Emotionally,
> > you are something like the obsessed
> ex-girlfriend
> > that is still stalking her ex years after the
> > breakup. Let it go. Move on with your life.
> If
> > you can't enjoy watching 4014, maybe it's time
> for
> > a different hobby. Go watch airplanes or
> > something.
>
> Ok Mike were you there for the trips over cajon?
> Do you know anyone who was in the know on those
> trips? I was asking a honest question but flame
> away. Since you opened this can of worms. So you
> were on the diesel helper over archer to know that
> is was a "paperweight" or know the engineer who
> was on it? You gathered all that information from
> trackside foaming? Ill bet you will claim next
> that you saw the steam pressure gauge trackside as
> well, right? As far as my comment that you quoted
> I was there in Yermo that morning saw it and heard
> it on the radio of the 4014 needing helper
> assistance to pull the train out of a flat yard. I
> also know the engineer on the pilot crew who
> verified the fact that the 4014 was being pushed
> all day long but I'll bet you will come back and
> say he was full of it right? Can you say the same
> for your trackside report?

I continue to be amazed at the people who claim they
can read the boiler pressure gauge, the speedometer,
and throttle notch and load indicator on the pushers
just in the split-second as it sails by. Probably
some of the same people who first claimed those 21
cars on the Archer Hill run were loads of cement until
it was revealed that they were all empties.

Obviously some great, underappreciated skills are
lurking in the seas of trackside foam. Much better
and more accurate than trackside AEI readers, remote
downloads of the pushers car billing.