EW> They're all dragging equipment and axle counting detectors. I'd 
 EW> love to listen to a hot box detector when a steam enging goes by. 
 
     I don't mean to put my unwelcome two cents in here, but I couldn't  
     let you're worthy question go unanswered. 
 
     When the Nickel Plate 765 was all dressed up as C & O 2765, and made  
     the run from Youngstown, Ohio to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and back on 
     the weekend of August 28 and 29, 1993, it set off every hotbox detector 
     on the old Pittsburgh and Lake Erie from New Castle to city center. 
 
     On every occaision, the "talker" reported the "hotbox" at the "fifth 
     axle", which makes sense if you think about it for a 2-8-4.  Pilot 
     axle is one, drivers are two, three, four and then it gets warm, fast, 
     over axle five!  Everybody got a kick out of it, hearing it on the 
radio. 
     How come they never had to kick the conductor out the door to do a 
     proper "train walk?":-)  It was a great weekend, with great weather! 
     What more could you ask? 
 
     PRC 
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