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Wow he managed to bring 5 salt loads up the hill too eh!
Barely…. they tried with 12 cars… didn’t make it past the first grade crossing, and tried in vain – crawling centimeters at a time, and gave it a bit more of a run and still no dice. Reduced to 8 cars.. got halfway up the hill then stalled again – backed to the ‘mine’ – reduced to 5 and made it up no problem, set up the SBU and get the heck out of dodge with whatever they had. No second run to the mine
I always knew the grade to the mine was steep, but two SD40′s can’t haul 12 salt loads up that grade? What’s the percentage of the grade?
Beauty shot Steve!
Great shot! It’s hard enough bring 40 ton of salt up the hillin a truck you don’t stop at hwy 21 at the top you keep rolling. It’s always fun watching them bring loads up that’s for sure.
Thanks guys – Gord, that’s insane – you do have a yield sign at the top of the hill for HWY 21… any traffic and you kind of have no choice!