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Every new skin on these straight 40s just gets better and better. Great stuff as always!

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Slogging up the steep grades on the southern ascent up Independence with a bit of borrowed power. Grades on this hill go from 2% to nearly 3.8% in some places.

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Cheers,
SM
Careful, on steep grades, the slack will run in, once the rear end crests the summit, and will rapidly run-in, and give operators a jolt, throwing out their backs
 
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Decided to dig through some old shoeboxes full of slides, and found this gem:

These are the early days of the GSS. April 14th, 1983: Former NCC F7A #261 leads train M-TCSV-2 west through Birchleaf, with some B&O visitors in the trail. The F7 was not long for the world... it would be traded into EMD for GP38-2s early the next year. The B&O GP35 would hold on for a few more decades before being rebuilt into a CSX slug, and the WM SD40 would be rebuilt not once but twice, eventually becoming DCR 3502, an SD40-3 (which is operational to this day).

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Careful, on steep grades, the slack will run in, once the rear end crests the summit, and will rapidly run-in, and give operators a jolt, throwing out their backs

The amount of hills on this route, I think our crews will be quite used to the slack changes...

Southbound empties led by some borrowed power throw on dynamics hard to keep from running away on such a steep and curvy grade.

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More and more equipment has been piling into Chloe to finish the construction of Substation #9, one of only a few enclosed substations, here in June of 1971. The catenary crews are getting close, too, and within a month, the tracks here will be under wire and connected to the substation.

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Cheers,
SM
 
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