Them Ol' Steem injines

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When I was in the Army stationed at Ft. Eustis (Newport News) 1967-69, I  
was told that C&O routinely pushed loaded coal trains out of Fulton Yard in  
Richmond with a switcher.  Once they crested the grade it was downhill all  
the rest of the way to Newport News.  Switching the power on those trains  
from three GP-9s to two GP-38s slowed them noticeably, which shouldn't have  
surprised anyone but apparently did.
 
Dave Phelps
 
 
In a message dated 8/18/2015 7:00:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

 
 
That wasn’t done as a regular thing; probably when rail conditions were  
less than needed.  Nobody offered to push me out of town with two GP30s  and 
20,000 tons . . .
 
EdKing
 
 

 
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effery Hensley_ (mailto:tkh613 at msn.com)   
Subject: Them Ol' Steem injines


 

 
 
ED, 
Old head yard engineers in  Williamson have told me about pushing westbound 
loads to help get them started  out of the yard and cut off on the fly at 
the westend of the yard.  Some of the stories I’ve heard are  pretty 
interesting. 
-Jeff  Hensley. 
Class A engines didn?t start the  16,000 ton trains at Williamson all at 
once.  They took full advantage of the slack,  too.  And that practice was  
carried on in diesel days; faced with getting away from Williamson (and it was 
 practically dead level) with two GP30s and a 20,000 ton train, there was 
no  way you could start them with the slack stretched.  You jockeyed back and 
forth until you  had them all coming, and then advanced the throttle as 
much as you could.  Starting them a car at a time was a  lot easier than trying 
to start them all at once, as had been learned long  ago.
 
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