I am overjoyed at the BLI’s new heavy Mike. We worked one up and down 3% grades under DCC and with 22" twisting track to boot. It was able to control 14 cars with some slip as well as stop and restart the consist.
We went and piled 20 cars that was operational at the time. And we were able to carry the grade once we achieved top speed prior to the grade. One had a feeling at those speeds we would either carry over the summit succesfully or have a wreck, the messy and expensive kind. We carried the hill.