Hail the 4014 Wrote:
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> Negin Wrote:
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> > It's the man, not the machine. Wrote:
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> > > I
> > > told him that numerous railfans with scanners
> > > heard Dickens calling out power notch
> settings
> > > over the radio to the diesel helpers and that
> > they
> > > were in at least Run 6 the whole way to
> Summit.
> > >
> >
> > The 4014 doesn't have a MU pakage like 844
> does?
>
> Nope it doesn't. It has to have a manned helper

If you recall, The UP "God of Steam" blamed the wheel-flattening incident with the 844 at Mt. Pleasant, TX on the EMD designed MU control box, even though subsequent testing showed that the box was functioning correctly.

After scapegoating the device, to cover for his own ineptitude and malfeasance, he could hardly be expected to go on using it.

Funny how the box never malfunctioned over the many years Steve Lee oversaw the program. There are seven such boxes on other excursion locomotives, including the 4449 and 765 and not one of those has ever suffered a road failure.

Perhaps it took a deity like Edgar Dickens Jr. to spot the flaws in the device that no one else on Earth could find.