by Mountcastle
Does anybody know why A&A #14 was taken out of service?
What, exactly, went wrong with the engine that made them, one day, say, "Oh, dear...that's not good. That's it for 14, I'm afraid; we're going to have to use 18 from now on." And what was so apparently irreparable about what went wrong that it hasn't yet been repaired?
I often wondered why they didn't rotate the two locomotives more often than they did. In the 1970s and on through the mid 1980s, 14 was used almost exclusively. I recall seeing 18 used once during that time. It wasn't painted-up at all, there was no lettering on the tender and it looked like something out of the burning of Atlanta, but there it was, replacing 14 one season (don't ask me to remember which). Then 14 returned again. Then 14 was gone.
What happened and what will it take to bring 14 back from the dead?
What, exactly, went wrong with the engine that made them, one day, say, "Oh, dear...that's not good. That's it for 14, I'm afraid; we're going to have to use 18 from now on." And what was so apparently irreparable about what went wrong that it hasn't yet been repaired?
I often wondered why they didn't rotate the two locomotives more often than they did. In the 1970s and on through the mid 1980s, 14 was used almost exclusively. I recall seeing 18 used once during that time. It wasn't painted-up at all, there was no lettering on the tender and it looked like something out of the burning of Atlanta, but there it was, replacing 14 one season (don't ask me to remember which). Then 14 returned again. Then 14 was gone.
What happened and what will it take to bring 14 back from the dead?