@ for BOB2
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 09-18-2013 - 13:21
BOB2 Wrote:
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> I can attest to easily not being able to hold a
> fully released train of this size on a grade like
> that, when a heel of five lousy empty pigs that my
> useless lazy field man tied, and only the
> independent application of two SD-7's, gave me a
> scary high speed "green to the hill" down the old
> "slide" starting opposite the Glendale depot, and
> ending when we finally hit the hump "squeezers",
> as the cut went over the crest.
Aw, yes. The Slide. Brings back fond memories.