Leo
With a hose?
Would you like a copy of a chart for the alley with all the tracks from the old
mainline from First Ave to the C--- N- - -- W---- Roundhouse
sjh
qutlx1@a... wrote:
> 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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