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Winter Steam: planned & unplanned experiences

Author: DH

Date: 10-30-2011 - 17:01

I like the thought of experiencing steam locomotion in the winter too.

I made an early trip with the Grand Canyon Railroad Railway in December 1989 behind one of the LS&I locomotives. There was lots of snow!! Enough so I had to deploy chains on the car for the first time when we left Williams the next day.
I also made a trip on the D&S Cascade Turn in December 1984. Again lots of snow! We bucked into a snow drift from a small avalanche on the return trip that jolted the whole train.
In the winter of 1972, my brother and I rode the Reader RR mixed train to Waterloo, Ark. No snow, but it was so cold and damp that I didn't feel the pain from the coach window that crashed down on my fingers.

Sometime in the early 80s I rode my first UP 3985 trip: behind a 6900 Centennial from Denver to Borie or Cheyenne and then 3985 to Laramie and back. It was October and we encountered a few blizzards. Perhaps I exaggerate. Heavy snow events, then.

Finally, I had the opportunity to ride in the caboose with friends behind T&NO 786 on some cold Central Texas winter days (sans snow). Nothing like warming up chile and tamales on a caboose stove!

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DH Wrote:
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> I like the thought of experiencing steam
> locomotion in the winter too.
> 
> I made an early trip with the Grand Canyon
> Railroad Railway in December 1989 behind one of
> the LS&I locomotives.  There was lots of snow!!
> Enough so I had to deploy chains on the car for
> the first time when we left Williams the next day.
>  
> I also made a trip on the D&S Cascade Turn in
> December 1984.  Again lots of snow!  We bucked
> into a snow drift from a small avalanche on the
> return trip that jolted the whole train.
> In the winter of 1972, my brother and I rode the
> Reader RR mixed train to Waterloo, Ark.  No snow,
> but it was so cold and damp that I didn't feel the
> pain from the coach window that crashed down on my
> fingers.
> 
> Sometime in the early 80s I rode my first UP 3985
> trip:  behind a 6900 Centennial from Denver to
> Borie or Cheyenne and then 3985 to Laramie and
> back. It was October and we encountered a few
> blizzards.  Perhaps I exaggerate.  Heavy snow
> events, then.
> 
> Finally, I had the opportunity to ride in the
> caboose with friends behind T&NO 786 on some cold
> Central Texas winter days (sans snow).  Nothing
> like warming up chile and tamales on a caboose
> stove!

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