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Subject: Steam
From: qutlx1@a...
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:49:37 EST
A loooong time ago in a place far,far ,far away my grandfather(Smitty) told 
his young grandson lots of railroad stories. One of those was about how one 
time the winter was so bad on the Alley Job (neat industrial spur and 
connection to the cheap and nothing wasted in Aurora, IL) that the crew spent 
a large part of one day routing steam from the engine to the flange way 
between the rails and the street paving material(bricks,cement or asphalt 
{depending on which part of Middle Ave you were on}) in order to melt the 
buildup of ice so as not to derail the cars being shoved down the alley (see 
prior posts on Alley Job operating scheme).Can anyone explain how this would 
have been done? Leo


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