Southern Pacific #4449 slips wheels, as it shoves 40 cars of lumber a bit further down the track to clear a switch in Tigard, Oregon. I could not video the cars moving as this was a active rail yard. Notice how the locomotive creeps forward slightly to take up slack, then reverses and backs up gaining momentum. Later I talked to the engineer and he told me that starting a steam locomotive is like "starting a car in 5th gear because of the large wheel size". True horsepower typically develops for steam locomotives after 30 mph. Both the steam locomotive and the SD9 were fresh out of the paint shop for this short excursion. Filmed in June, 2006.
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