Re: SP power on the point of the starlight
Author: OTN
Date: 01-15-2013 - 09:59
WAF Wrote:
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> 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
> >
> > 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?
WAF
You must have made trips in the cab with "Gtasshopper"
I am curious whose authority did the engineer
use to request any additional power at Roseville?
Eppling did not posess this authority.