Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY?

["Winton" <runextra@gmail.com>]

Louis Zadnichek, thanks for the pic of the 3116 at Englewood SD. Englewood is 
about MP 98 on the Edgemont-Deadwood line through the Black Hills. I was 
engineer on that line for a while in 1975. Alas, I had 4 BN SD9's not a 2-8-0. 
However the Black Hills Central tourist outfit was running steam then and since 
it used BN crews I got called off the Alliance engineer's extraboard to run 
that.
Going down one of the 3% grades in a snow storm with about 36 loaded cars was 
the only time in my 41 year career that I came close to losing a train! 
Could've ended up dead like Eric's uncle but I regained control and it all 
ended well. Learned some valuable lessons that night. 
I hated to see the BN abandon that scenic CB&Q line.

Winton

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