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doctorwayne Wrote:
and it's also nice to see her with a clean stack and nobody with a camera ruining the view. 
Wayne
And it was running light because of a bearing failure. Here is the whole consist.
The supposed story is it was the first run after some maintenance and according to a machinist friend they installed a new bearing, machined the way they are supposed to be, which he said in this case was wrong. It should have been sloppy there fore it was running hot under a load so they tied the helpers to the rest of the train and took it to Pittsburgh and back to Orrville. The 765 went east as far as Homewood Junction (just west of Beaver Falls, Pa) and turned on the wye and went back west. They got the bearing fixed and it ran the excursions the next week end.
This picture is from the bridge that was practically in my back yard at my other house in downtown East Palestine.
