Re: Will an EMD 2 stroke run away like a Detroit?
Author: Mark Meoff
Date: 02-01-2012 - 20:48
I was on train 5 stuck behind a westbound UP freight that had a motor start sucking engine oil into the cylinders. It ran away, blew oil and towering clouds of smoke out the stack, and made the local fire marshal very upset. People on the highway thought the locomotive was going to blow up.
So yes, it can happen.