Re: 1978 San Francisco image
Author: WAF
Date: 12-29-2020 - 16:44
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> > The older cars (the subs) had no AC and required
> steam for heat. In the summer, lack of steam for
> heat was not a problem for the subs.
>
> In the latter years, during the winter, the trains
> were connected to plant steam heat. Then shortly
> before departure, the plant head was disconnected,
> but the train boilers in the locomotives weren't
> used. Don't recall whether the gallery cars used
> steam heat, but they did have steam lines. Power
> for car lighting and AC was self-contained.
Galleries had diesel engines for AC and power with pass through steam lines