Very nice picture! I watched the video on youtube and was really quite mesmerized by the site of a long ore drag preparing to do battle on the Farron hill. I've always loved pusher operations, and the site of a C-liner in the pusher set seems so fitting. The only thing better would have been a complete set of C-liners. It also sent me scurrying for all my books on the Boundary sub and the KVR to figure out where such a long train would have originiated... I'm settling for the notion that if the Carmi Sub were still in existence, it must have come from the west over the KVR!
I'll try posting this reply again. Not sure it is "sticking"... Thank you for the nice comments PGE #2! I do have a number of C Liners in my FM stable of 20 or so engines. 8 C Liners units in total (10 H Liners and 2 TMs). I often run an ABBA set of C-Liners on the Nelson-Cranbrook freights...V. Pretty! My rationale for the ore trains are that a Phoenix area Copper mine has been reactivated. This also justified the helper operation as the line is nearly completely downhill from Phoenix to Eholt Jn to Cascade and then from Farron to Trail so helpers just to get from Cascade to Farron may have made sense. Of course all helper operation was phased out in dieselization...this was one of the arguments to scrap steam in the first place! md
