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"If you really needed a diesel locomotive right away, then go ahead and order a ALCO. But if you could wait for real quality, then go for an EMD or a GE".
"If you really needed a diesel locomotive right away, then go ahead and order a ALCO. But if you could wait for real quality, then go for an EMD or a GE".
"Life is like a journey, taken on a train With a pair of travelers at each windowpane. I may sit beside you all the journey through, Or I may sit elsewhere, never knowing you. But if fate should mark me to sit by your side, Let's be pleasant travellers; it's so short a ride."
"Life is like a journey, taken on a train With a pair of travelers at each windowpane. I may sit beside you all the journey through, Or I may sit elsewhere, never knowing you. But if fate should mark me to sit by your side, Let's be pleasant travellers; it's so short a ride."
One of the preserved examples has been allowed out on the UK national rail network a couple of times, albeit confined to the Looe branch in Cornwall (it had to be loco hauled there and back). The Looe branch is quite steeply graded up to 1 in 40 (2.5%) I believe on the climb from Combe Jn back up to Liskeard. So they certainly have enough power to cope with that, though I bet in the summer it gets quite toasty in the passenger saloon when the car is working hard.
Planning to do a bit of research where else they ran with a possible view to a Workshop route later in the year.
"If you really needed a diesel locomotive right away, then go ahead and order a ALCO. But if you could wait for real quality, then go for an EMD or a GE".
My goodness I've never had a locomotive that made me do so much for a 8 minute video. Driving backwards is hard because all you got is a bell to tell your fireman when to start, stop and brakes release. It's a crazy system I leave it at that. In terms of operation hands down its the best one yet. Pete deserves a medal for this.
"If you really needed a diesel locomotive right away, then go ahead and order a ALCO. But if you could wait for real quality, then go for an EMD or a GE".
"If you really needed a diesel locomotive right away, then go ahead and order a ALCO. But if you could wait for real quality, then go for an EMD or a GE".