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.
PRC> When the Nickel Plate 765 was all dressed up as C & O 2765, and
PRC> made the run from Youngstown, Ohio to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
PRC> and back on the weekend of August 28 and 29, 1993, it set off
PRC> every hotbox detector on the old Pittsburgh and Lake Erie from
PRC> New Castle to city center.
PRC> On every occaision, the "talker" reported the "hotbox" at the
PRC>"fifth axle", which makes sense if you think about it for a 2-8-4.
PRC> Pilot axle is one, drivers are two, three, four and then it gets
PRC> warm, fast, over axle five!  Everybody got a kick out of it,
PRC> hearing it on the radio.
Uh-huh. Then there's the folks at the Altoona Railroaders' Memorial
Museum, who were running the expensively restored old "K4s" owned by
the Museum. These guys ran the 4-6-2 through a bunch of hotbox
detectors, laughing at the warnings. Then they realized that the
middle driver axle really had a hotbox; the axle had been *ruined*,
and all three axles had to be replaced as a set.
oops...
Reggie Arford
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