Yes, I admit I was surprised to hear the locomotive working downhill as well. I would imagine the years of passenger excursion service Rich as put in with this locomotive has shone that at the slow speeds this long consist operated at, keeping the train stretched downhill is the way to go particularly here at the steepest part of the grade.
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You'll hear soon, Dennis, about the 30 mph through here, but it was impressive. Yes, the train handling all weekend was impressive. Each start and stop was magnificent -- images in the windows were moving before riders knew the train had started. Even the stops -- a stretched train lets the engineer stop it with the throttle, as you know. The decision whether to chase or ride was a tough one, but the chance to hear big steam clawing uphill for such a distance in both directions was too good to pass up. The images is pretty much right out of the DSLR, just cropping and dropping the image size, and adding the data, was done. It's more contrasty above than it is on my new monitor at home, but perhaps some adjustment is needed in that monitor.
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Yes, very contrasty indeed. For a moment, I thought it was badly home developed film!
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