Re: PC: Diesel Hoppers

[Walt Gay <waltrail@xxxxxxxxx>]

Garrett Rea wrote:
> 
> >The ones at Conway were
> >never equipped with toilets thats why they stayed in the yard.
> 
> My late neighbor that was a passenger engineer for PRR/PC/Amtrak said it was
> a cardinal sin to use the hopper in the nose of an E-8.  He told my father
> that on hot days (like this coming weekend) the best thing to do was to run
> with the doors up front open for "ac".  Even with the door shut, there was
> enough drafts in the nose that the smell would woft into the cab.  "So what
> do you do then?" you ask, the trick was  at night one could "engage in #1"
> out of the side door at speed.  He went from Columbus to Indy, (National
> Limited) so there were plenty of remote areas to do such deeds.
> 
> Garrett Rea


	Would they also do #2 out the door at speed?