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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Dick_Lewis I have seen several forum entries which cite certain locomotives as having a well-known propensity to "flame" and speculating that this may have been the cause of the tunnel fire in question. (I certainly have no knowledge of the validity of such speculation.) If accurate, it would seem an engineering solution for the suspect locomotives would be in order. Or, as an alternative, assign such locomotives to territories without tunnel fire risk. [/quote] Mr. Lewis, I used to work for the UP at the Roseville Ca. locomotive shop and have seen many a GE with a bad turbo blow about 8 to 10 feet of flame out the stack. The crew might not have been able to take that unit off line due to the grade so the theory is very probable.
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