[PRCo] Re: I hear the train a comin'.......or......

[Herb Brannon]

We are a Class II railroad so the speed limit is 29mph. However, and I have
never spoken these words to anyone, it's really nice to be riding when we
are running behind schedule and we have to get back on schedule. This does
happen frequently in the warmer weather months. All the track between
Cleveland and Akron is new welded rail as of August 1st this year. That
allows for getting back on schedule quickly.
The steam trips will run next weekend from Akron Station to Boston Mill and
return with three trips each day on both Saturday and Sunday. Go to cvsr.com,
click on "Steam In The Valley" , buy tickets, and come ride next weekend.

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 18:51, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> At that speed and with ten cars they ought to be able to hand fire the
> Berkshire instead of using the stoker!!!!!
> I remember a great line, Herb, that came from a friend who visited the NKP
> back in the final days of steam out in Ohio.   He back home telling us that
> he had told that one of the jobs of a Nickel Plate road foreman of engines
> was, the event of an accident to beat the ICC inspector to the scene and
> make sure that someone inadvertently forgot to put a tape in the speed
> recorder on the engine.   The Nickel Plate had one way to run those engines
> across Ohio, Indiana and Illinois back in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and
> that was FAST.
>
> Lamentably, I never got a chance to see them on their home turf.  I was
> invited to go to Bellevue, Ohio with several local guys in 1957 and my
> father's response was to remind me of every place I had been that year and
> then to point out that I was going to stay home and do homework.  Stay home,
> yes.   Study?  Fat chance.   Comes under that old line about leading the
> horse to water.  I wasn't thirsty in 1957
>
> Took a few more years to wake up and discover that there was some merit in
> studying.
>
> Yes, I have my homework done for tomorrow's class.   I did wake up.   Now I
> have fun going to school.
>
> One question ...  What is the track speed?   I imagine it is class 2 ... 30
> miles per hour for passenger and 25 for freight.
>
> In the late 1980s or early 1990s the Pennsy K4s that was on display on the
> Horseshoe Curve was operated from York to the village of Railroad over the
> old Northern Central.   I think that track was either class 1 or excepted
> ... 10 miles per hour.   They only had about three coaches behind the
> engine.   I was heckling the fireman at York before they left ..... "Will
> the stoker screw run slowly enough to fire this engine with this light load
> at the speed you are going to run it?"   The response was, "We're not even
> going to try.  We're hand firing."
>
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> On Sep 18, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
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> > the train I worked at Cuyahoga Valley Railroad this weekend
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DjGTJvMXVI
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> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtuJj-KTj0>
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> > videos by my railroad coworkers "on the ground"
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> > Herb Brannon
> > In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park