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Re: (erielack) U34CH sound
:) Yep I saw same on the Less Frequent but still Exciting runs these
beasts made on the Morristown line and even the Gladstone Br :-D
Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) wrote:
>The U34CH's were very "spirited" when they accelerated. So as not to be TOO misleading, they weren't really "flames" shooting out the stack, it was superheated carbon particles (it resembled a curtain of orange, rising up and down with each "chug").
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>I used to love sitting on the Main Street bridge in Boonton at dusk - the U34CH would stop just past the bridge, setting up a great show for me. I would always stare at that stack to watch for that orange curtain. I usually would also get a big whiff of that thick oily smoke, too.
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>Ahhhhh.... those were the days. :)
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> - Paul
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>Ok..
>12.
>On a cold Winters day, sitting on the big heater enclosure next to the control stand in the cab, with the house style vent blowing blowtorch hot air up at you.. If you were laying in an ice bath, that heater would COOK you in 5 mins..Damn near paint peelin hot..
>13.
>Feeling the lateral motion of the worn outness of them later on...
>14.
>Hanging your head out the window in 8th notch uphill by Chester Jct and hearing the traction motors purring.
>15.Looking back leaving Lake Hopatcong Station and seeing black smoke and flame, rocketing up from the stack, like you could never imagine.
>16. Looking back at the running boards 8th notch over stick rail and seeing all the rusty engine compartment doors chattering..
>17.
>Best of all.. In the midst of full throttle, with the roar of the U34, Looking over my right shoulder seeing Veteran Lackawanna engineers, who happen to be looking over their left shoulders, smiling back at me, knowing I was having the time of my life :-)
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>-Pat
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