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Monday Train Blogging: New England Autumn | 18 comments (18 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

This particular photo appears to have been "staged" for maximum soot output. This specific train only ran a couple of excursion routes per year in the late 1990s and is not in regular operation. Below are a couple of other pictures of this same locomotive passing over the same viaduct:

So it's fairly obvious that this locomotive isn't always such a polluter. It's not terribly clean, no doubt, but 614 was built in 1948, just prior to the main switchover from coal to diesel-electric.

by The Maven on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 01:06:20 PM EST
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Re: For Whatever It's Worth (none / 1)

Hah! I hoped someone would step in with such info ;-)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 01:37:06 PM EST
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Re: For Whatever It's Worth (none / 1)

BTW, such staging of high soot output is ocassionally done here too - for example, a few years ago at the railway parade for the 150-year celebrations of Hungarian railways, the Romanian guest locomotives did this when passing in front of the tribunes filled with railfans packed full of cameras.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 01:40:30 PM EST
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