🚀 go-pugleaf

From: Swenson.PA@Xerox.ARPA

Sand is indeed needed.  I was on a trip on the California Western last
summer (or perhaps the summer before)-one of the first steam trips in
several years.  The steam engine ran from Fort Bragg to the midpoint and
swapped cars with a diesel from Willets.  We went on to Willets behind
the diesel.  The sanders on the diesel were empty or clogged.  The
engine was unable to pull the train around an uphill curve.  Finally
after many failures, the train crew went along the tracks and picked up
pinches of sand along the track & put this sand on the rails.  After
perhaps a half hour of this, the train was able to proceed.