Re: not to mention railroad donkey engines


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not to mention railroad donkey engines

"railroad donkey engines?"

What they use in switching yards to build trains.

Have you ever seen what they use for a Power Plant on Catalina
Island?

http://wookiee.home.att.net

Rocky


No, can't say I care.

Ok, but I have a question about a "railroad donkey engine." Is that the
diesel engine that turns the generator in a diesel locomotive? It
sounds
like it is and that is why I thought of Catalina Island.

Donkeys are locomotives used to pull cars around a switchyard to build
trains.

Thanks for the information and that could be what Catalina Island uses for
Electrical Power. I know they use a locomotive engine but I don't remember
if it was one of the smaller locomotives or not.

Using a locomotive engine to generate power on Catalina Island cost a
fortune, but SCE (Southern California Edison) has to charge the customers on
Catalina Island the same price people on the mainland are charged. I hear
it was becase of some law.

I've already searched the internet for any photos of the Power Company on
Catalina Island and couldn't find any. I don't remember a whole lot of the
place, but I remember how to get there from the Harbor and that it was just
up the road from a bunch of Quansit huts.

I'd like to go back there some day, but I doubt if it will ever happen.

Rocky


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