Joe,
The crew did know what they were doing. The old 8100 series SW1200RS
units were road engines and were equipped with transition. Ok to be
used on a road freight at up to 65mph. After rebuild, only units
1268-1275 were equipped with transition (for service on the DAR). The
rest were not.
Paul Smith
Winnipeg
KVRailway wrote:
The crew probably knew exactly what they were doing. If I'm not
mistaken, a
heavy freight train working east up the canyon out of Golden won't
exceed 35
miles per hour at any point from Golden to Field, so working the yard
unit
up the hill would have been fair game. I saw a 8100 series RS12 unit
worked
exactly the same way on the Princeton Subdivision in 1975. The eastbound
train working from Spences Bridge to Penticton had 3 GP9s and the RS12.
Tonnage for the train was at the absolute maximum for three GP9 units, so
the 8100 was put on line and away we went. The 8100 was the trailing unit
on the consist and I can still hear it howl in Number 8 throttle as we
clawed our way around the Belfort Loops about 12 MPH. I don't think we
set
any fires, though, because that thing was working so hard that the carbon
cinders it blew from the exhaust stack are still coming down. The
Mechanical Supervisor at Penticton was pretty choked when he climbed onto
the unit just after arrival in Penticton. You could smell the thing 3 car
lengths away. But, it worked its assignment at Penticton afterwards
with no
problems.
Joe Smuin
1. - "Joey, the secret to telling a good railway story is to always
try to
stick just as close to the facts as possible." --- (the late) Cliff
Inkster; CPR Engineman, raconteur and philosopher.
2. - The secret to contacting Joe by email is to be sure to insert
"Joe" or
"Smuin" into the main text portion of any message you send to him, and
thus
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John" <sutherail@xxxxxxxx <mailto:sutherail%40yahoo.ca>>
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cpsig%40yahoogroups.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 9:12 AM
Subject: [cpsig] Re: GP7u/9u help
And sometimes the train crew doesn't do their job correctly. Many yearsplace
back I watched an eastbound freight lift a 1500 at Golden, BC, and
it between the pair of SD9043s (alignment control coupler issue?).It was
definitely on line, starting several small brush fires at Glenogle and"Stephen" <sjlowens@...> wrote:
more than likely elsewhere out of sight of the road. The sight really
accentuated how much longer the 9100s are. I can't imagine how hard it
must have been on the electrical systems of the GP.
John
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cpsig%40yahoogroups.com>,
photo
I can't tell you if it was "alive" or "dead." It is an engine I got
excited over because I had modeled it about 10 years before from a
at aand had never seen it before. It was sitting in the lashup when I
spotted it, and the train moved out before I could get close. I also
briefly encountered it after a couple of miles of chasing, but only
poorcrossing, and I was too busy trying to get what turned out to be a
Smith <pbsmith@> wrote:picture to get any additional impressions. FWIW, it was not the last
engine in the lashup.
Steve Lowens
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cpsig%40yahoogroups.com>, Paul
running).
Steve,
Okay, here is a few questions for you. I'm assuming that you saw 1588
with a bunch of road units? Sometimes you may see a unit in a road
consist that is isolated (on idle, not pulling), or dead (not
Calgary forIt may have been en route dead or isolated to Alyth Shop in
maintenance or repairs.
Paul Smith
Winnipeg
Stephen wrote:
It's only a single example, but I saw #1588 as part of a lashup
pulling a sizeable grain/mixed freight train heading south out of
Edmonton in June, 2008.
Steve Lowens
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