Tantallon Redux Part 2
The sound show to top them all...
CSX "Local" freight M780 has three old GP38/40 series motors grinding in notch 8 up the two and a half percent grade up the Cumberland escarpment. With 39 loads of Lhoist mineral traffic from Anderson on the drawbars it wouldn't be a simple run back up the mountain. The 39 loads were determined to be weight enough to require the manned Cowan pusher to hop on the rear and shove them over the hill after riding down on the rear of Q647 an hour earlier. For quite a few minutes you could hear the roar of both turbo and non turbo EMD 645 engine blocks howling as they gave every ounce of power to lift the heavy train up one of the steepest grades on the CSX System. When they entered the high rock walls of Big Hormady Cut the noise was absolutely deafening. One of the all time best man vs nature soundshows.
Tantallon Redux Part 2
The sound show to top them all...
CSX "Local" freight M780 has three old GP38/40 series motors grinding in notch 8 up the two and a half percent grade up the Cumberland escarpment. With 39 loads of Lhoist mineral traffic from Anderson on the drawbars it wouldn't be a simple run back up the mountain. The 39 loads were determined to be weight enough to require the manned Cowan pusher to hop on the rear and shove them over the hill after riding down on the rear of Q647 an hour earlier. For quite a few minutes you could hear the roar of both turbo and non turbo EMD 645 engine blocks howling as they gave every ounce of power to lift the heavy train up one of the steepest grades on the CSX System. When they entered the high rock walls of Big Hormady Cut the noise was absolutely deafening. One of the all time best man vs nature soundshows.