3 pics at switchback

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Good morning from the other side of the pond.

 

Whatever it was it looked spectacular and could have been a nightmare close
to a signal gantry, overbridge  or in a tunnel. It might have been unburnt
fuel in the exhaust. I believe some of these locos have had fires deep
within the engine that have ignited the lube oil with devastating and
expensive results. A couple of GE locos over here have been self-basting. 

 

Phil Mortimer

 

 

 

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Is this just a possible soot fire in the exhaust ducts or is the locomotive
in serious trouble?

 

Rick Huddle

Delaware, OH

 

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A friend forwarded this. 

Alan Cox

 

 

On Today 1-30-2018 Around 5pm an east bound Norfolk Southern train was
looking 
just like a steam engine.. The second unit in the consist was shooting up
super-high 
flames of fire and hugh-gulps of gigantic smoke while east bound thru
Upland,Elkhorn, 
Switchback & Maybeury,West Virginia In McDowell County, By the time it
arrived in 
Bluefield,WV Mercer County around 6pm there were no longer any flames of
fire or smoke.. 
As a veteran Railroad Photographer It was both dramatic and scary at the
same time. 
All pictures by Timothy L.Hairston 60 missionary Church Road Upland,WV
24831-9601



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