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Why so much motive power for passenger trains?
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<P>[quote user="ericboone"]A few months ago, I rode the Canadian through the Rockys. There were about 20 modern passenger cars and two locomotives. One locomotive was to pull the train and the other provided electric power to the passenger cars. On our particular trip, both locomotives broke down, causing a nine hour delay. One locomotive was borrowed from CN, but they could not provide electricity to the passenger cars with just one. Finally, we were able to meet a second locomotive and electric power to the passenger cars was restored. Unfortately, we had one meal of KFC for 200 people from a small town of maybe 2000 instead of the very nice meals normally made in the diner's powerless kitchen. I bet that was the biggest order that particular KFC ever had.[:P] It was also somewhat chilly due to the lack of heat in the mountains.<BR>[/quote]</P> <P>That's funny. I took a dinner train trip several years ago with my wife and my brother and his wife. It was around the Madison area of WI and was to last a couple of hours. This was a little fan trip excursion behind an FP-7 with just a few cars. After a lousy, cold dinner, we had a drink in the lounge car and asked if we could go up into the engine and my brother and I got to go up to the cab. I remember intense heat and noise, walking up a narrow path to the cab for an exciting experience.</P> <P>When we got to the cab, I happened to glance into the side mirror and noticed quite a lot of smoke from one of the cars. I asked the engineer if that was supposed to be happening and he nervously said "no" and said we'd have to leave the engine. They stopped the train for 20 minutes or so as I think they had to free a brake shoe. Quite a fan trip, maybe one of you was there as well. </P> <P>Thanks for all of your comments.</P> <P>Bill</P>
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