Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!daemon From: railroad@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.railroad Subject: Re: Sand Towers Message-ID: <9876@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 14:02:42 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9876 Posted: Tue Aug 13 14:02:42 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 06:30:45 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 11 From: Swenson.PA@Xerox.ARPA Sand is indeed needed. I was on a trip on the California Western last summer (or perhaps the summer before)-one of the first steam trips in several years. The steam engine ran from Fort Bragg to the midpoint and swapped cars with a diesel from Willets. We went on to Willets behind the diesel. The sanders on the diesel were empty or clogged. The engine was unable to pull the train around an uphill curve. Finally after many failures, the train crew went along the tracks and picked up pinches of sand along the track & put this sand on the rails. After perhaps a half hour of this, the train was able to proceed.