Registered: February 2001 Location: Great Falls, MT Posts: 14,084
Wed April 2 1:18pm
Those sinuous curves--the grade! That's gonna be a brutal line to operate!
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Registered: August 2006 Location: Oregon-California border Posts: 177
Thu April 3 12:52am
Actually, ops isn't too challenging, except switching. The layout has handled an AC12 cab-forward, but I admit it didn't feel at home. Would you believe: there's an area on the layout that's a 2.8% grade. But its prototype (Siskiyou line near Steinman. OR) is a 3.6% grade. When I rode the cab, we used 4 GP38s and SD45s to pull 30 loads from Medford to Hornbrook. Scott
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