Nostalgia & History > Tacoma November

11/77 and a very late 201 train on the last bit into Tideflats Yard.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/10/18 21:08 by callum_out.

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Ok, interesting photo. Confirmation that #22 was equipped with an iceicle breaker bar and the top part of a telephone pole.

I missed that adventure, read about it happening in CTCBoard. I simply had no idea where to go.
Went to work instead. Chased the CW and checked out the old yard a few years later.

T4p. Always interesting to see Milwaukee and Tideflats yard.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/10/18 18:47 by TCnR.

What's the droopy cable around the radiators on the first unit?

2-10-2 Wrote:
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> What's the droopy cable around the radiators on
> the first unit?

Chain that supprts the icecle breaker when it's in the raised position.

Ahh, the days when Milwaukee Road was an integral component of "The Aroma of Tacoma"...

E.O.

Just to be clear the Milwaukee design for iceicle breakers was not related to the more well known SP design. There is some info about how to raise and lower them, very different than the SP. Some units also had a steel angle iron pocket above the radiators to hold the steel chain.

PHall Wrote:
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> 2-10-2 Wrote:
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> > What's the droopy cable around the radiators on
> > the first unit?
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> Chain that supprts the icecle breaker when it's in
> the raised position.