Hi John:
I rode some of the "Only on Sunday" trips (though the "way freight" to
Rockford was a Saturday trip). I think the Engineers put a little extra
into the "show" part of it :>)
Now.......if you listen to the Second album on the CD, you'll hear where I
developed MY style. I bought a 3-chime whistle and put it on the R&GN Ry.
#128, and made 'er talk. Since I was shovelling my own coal, nobody
complained about the amount of steam I was using blowing the whistle.
Nowdays, with the "fly-by-wire" motors we've got, the best you can do is a
little "poop" at the end of a blast.
One of our wonderful MAC slaves put my train into a Penalty Application a
couple trips ago, and even the Fort Worthless radio roundhouse couldn't fix
it. So....the Engr. behind me set it up for pneumatic back-up (trail) and I
drug it and the other 18,557 tons of coal into Edgemont with the two on the
point. We were down to 7 mph on Osage and Newcastle, but it suprised the
hell outta me, we made it. I wouldn't want to say what condition the two on
the point were in after I got done with them though :>) Maybe you can't
burn up the traction motors on an AC motor, but you CAN make 'em stink :>)
Have fun.
Mike Decker
----- Original Message -----
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To: <BRHSlist@egroups.com>
> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:21:55 -0500
> From: John Knopp <jdknopp@w...>
> Subject: Sunday Only CD - questions
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just got my copy of "Sunday Only" - what a great recording. It did bring
> up a question or two, though.
>
> Believe it or not, one of the most interesting things about the
> recording is the "whistle" work. Someone once wrote that Casey Jones
could
> make a whistle "scream like a banshee" or "say its prayers" but the 5632's
> hogger this day was no slouch, either!
>
>
> John Knopp
> jdknopp@w...
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