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Show Aladye City News | | | ({ SERVING MILFORD ee oS MAY 20, AND a WESTERN ee BEAVER COUNTY eee VOL. 50 cents 1994 ngggan CHALLENGER LOCOMOTIVE was numerous train was uncoupled from the engine. and was meet the Las Vegas continue on Angeles. in will again May 25th on the return trip. Bob Krieger, an engineer on the steam locomotive said the Milford trip from to Los Angeles would take approximately two days. The passenger train is periodically used for excursion trips. According to wile Winkelkotter, Promitory Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, it is not necessary member club a steam engine whistling through Caliente Canyon on a cold night. through Milford to of to a be a rail purchase a of Big he Boy," the said. memory Canyon. "Tt symphony - was a just a he said. ticket for these trips. one of excursion "3985" was © ‘originally built in 1943. restored in Et about was 1981 Cheyenne, Wyoming volunteers National Historical In by from Railway Society. 1990 engine converted the the was to burn diesel fuel instead of coal in order to eliminate the possibility of fires started by blowing sparks. The steam train carries 5,700 gallons of fuel in a fuel car behind the engine. It also carries 70,000 gallons of water in two water cars and the chambers in the engine. said the gallons would enough Kraiger 70,000 of water produce steam to propel the train approximately 300 miles. The engine operates pounds pressure inch. on of per 280 steam square Not all water produces an equal amount of steam. John R. "Bus" Hardy, who retired from Union Pacific Railroad after 42 years, remembers the ‘designated water stops where the mineral content in locomotive The the water produced the maximum amount of steam per gallon. Hardy, an engineer for 35 years, also explained the numbers (4664) under the engineers giant engine shrouded billowing steam a That is the way John R. "Bus" Hardy remembers the sound of and Los to It pass Dodge City News Photo by Alice Smith and train class except built up steam to continue it’s journey southward. IE WAS A SYMPHONY" meticulous excursion "I on =/engine . the engine, taking on and receiving with trucks. Saturday morning, May 14, The up are. worked symphony," it’s maintenance, scheduled to trucks, is the sound of the steam engine whistle on a cold night in Caliente journey under diesel power. some called railroad excursion polishing the. . Perhaps his most special spectators passenger after water 20 on trailer met by continued NO. window - have every after 2:00 p.m. on Friday, May 13. steam IV eee 'followed by two. sets of six driver. wheels and four when it arrived in Milford — shortly The 1991 ee locomotive. The. four front wheels, Challenger "3985" SINCE eee scene in was straight out of an old-time movie. After the excursion "3985" “will return Cheyenne, to Wyoming PRIMARY -BLECTION where it is housed. SUNK 28 LAST DAY TO REGISTER AT THE COUNTY — CLERK'S OFFICE IS JUNE 8 |
