Re: SP power on the point of the starlight
Author: WAF
Date: 01-14-2013 - 19:34
OTM Wrote:
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> WAF Wrote:
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> > One Sacramento Div engineer, Ed Eppling AKA
> > Grasshopper, would make a "command decision"
> > before Roseville if "HE" thought the power was
> > strong enough to pull the Hill
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> WAF
> Did this info come straignt from "Grasshopper"?
> The power requirements for No. 6 were made long
> before he went on duty at Oakland.
> The power requirements for no. 5 over the Sierra
> were made before the train left Ogden.
Great answer until the power failed enroute. Now what?