Cass WV Steam Train
Uploaded by: tcomden
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Our Cass train was hauled by a Shay and a Heisler. Both are geared locomotives, designed for use with steep grades and sharp curves (which abound at Cass, a former lumber line). The Shays are the big attraction at Cass -- it has the largest collection of operating Shays in the world.
The locos are always on the downhill end of the train (for safety reasons), so they basically push the cars up Bald Mountain, then pull them down again. There are two locos going up (for speed and power), and just one coming down (when gravity helps!). The brakes on the cars are used during the descent to keep the train under careful control, especially on the switchbacks where the locomotive is at the uphill end.
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Here in Germany the trains normally made in former times only short "toot" and started their journey. That
´s the way I like it. Short, loud, no playing arround. Nowadays in the museum railways they start to whistle a kind of individual looooooong stretched whistletone and several other laughable "whistle gimmicks". It´s so ridiculous, if the engineer can´t resist to play arround with the whistle. Kit
sch.
2)Calm down. Please.
3)Your explaination about pedestarians sounds logical.
4)I
´m posting what I want. If you can´t handle my harmless words....your bad luck.
A matter of taste. I like all train whistles.
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