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OK boys, here's some real turbine lore from one who's been there <br /> <br />...Almost "Blown Away" by Turbine !!! <br /> <br />In Omaha when I was about 13, I walked from my grandmother's house down to the Dahlman Ave. overpass to watch the UP ( So. 32nd & I-80). A string of west bound PFE empties led by a three unit turbine soon appeared, preceded by the appearance of the trade-mark black tornado of the exhaust rising above the hillside as it came around the slight curve from Summit. <br /> <br />I could, to my delight, see the engineer and fireman waving briskly. The waving became more and more frantic !! Leaning over the edge and looking straight down at them through the cab windshield I could see them shouting something. <br /> …what the ???? <br /> <br />Then, as the very hot blast of exhaust hit me in the face, knocking me backwards and nearly off my feet, I realized what the panic was all about. Thereafter I gave the "Big Blows" a wide berth on overpasses !!! <br /> <br />...oh what I'd give to be able to go back and do that all over again ! <br /> <br />
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