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</p><p><br></p><p>If asked the old trick question is, "If an electric engine is going east and the wind is going west, which way does the smoke go?", the proper response is to ask if it is on a passenger or freight train. If the train is passenger then the answer is west, if the train is freight, the answer is neither, there isn't any smoke.</p>
(10-11-2023, 09:21 AM)Charlie B Wrote: The steam heat in electric territory was actually made with boilers in the locomotives that were fueled with heating oil.
</p><p><br></p><p>If asked the old trick question is, "If an electric engine is going east and the wind is going west, which way does the smoke go?", the proper response is to ask if it is on a passenger or freight train. If the train is passenger then the answer is west, if the train is freight, the answer is neither, there isn't any smoke.</p>