Ok soo the plan is to fix the spur and set up the railyard for her. Then we will be running on raton pass I don't know when tho sorry.

When we fix the sawmill spur and get to the railyard

I'm still not entirely convinced it's even actually possible, steam locomotives are a LOT more complicated to operate than diesel locomotives, and if you lock out certain controls at the wrong time you could easily cause a huge problem for the crew and do permanent damage to the locomotive. It's not as simple as locking out the throttle input or forcing the locomotive into emergency brake mode, everything on steam locomotive is operated by water pressure and valves. The throttle for example moves a bar that runs the entire length of the boiler, you can't exactly just hook that up to some transistors and call it a day. I really wish they'd just scrap PTC requirements on steam locomotives altogether, it's a massive headache for literally zero benefit to anyone.

Also there's absolutely no way 2926 is ever gonna run anywhere without a diesel helper anyway, so why even bother?

@@trainknut tell that to NS when they run 611 and to UP when 844 ran alone on a freight train from Denver back home to Cheyenne. It can and has been done mant times even on big boy boy 4014 its been done.

@@ChargerusPrime those trips were a long time ago my friend... Things have changed, railroad policies are different now and the FRA is way more strict on what has to happen for a steam locomotive to operate on a class 1, you're talking about things that happened 10-20 years ago as if that's how it is today. If I remember correctly, something changed about ten years ago, we haven't seen a mainline trip pulled by a steam locomotive solo since around 2012 and I think that's because the FRA finally mandated all class 1 excursions have a diesel helper present to provide PTC, HEP and dynamic braking. What I'm saying is, I'm not even entirely sure if its _legal_ for UP to put 844 and 4014 on trains by themselves anymore, and if it is, its certainly against their policy as a company.

@@trainknut I can understand that completely, but it happened in 2018 with 844 legal or not so I'm not sure. I just pray 2926 comes to Texas, hopefully Temple which has a huge BNSF yard.

Crossing is done

@@kindacircle nice all you need to do is the track I'm assuming?

@@USASteamProductions your right the track of the sawmill spur finish the tool car. Set up at the rail yard. And she will run. Baby steps

@@kindacircle but those baby steps are worth it.

I believe so or very very close to being done.