Hi Folks:
This is the same thing that the fancy new coal train electro-pneumatic
brakes do, except that they run from a "Black box" that is just far enough
out of reach to make using them really unhandy. I had the test train a
couple years ago, and when our pea-brain MOP, (now our Termoil Manager in
Gillette) came out to see it, with some bird from KC, he asked how they
worked. I told him "just like they worked on steam locos 60 years ago" he
thought I was BSin' him. I told them it worked real good for stretching 'em
through the sags. The bird from KC says: "Pretty soon you won't be able to
stretch brake." I says "Why, are you going to do something to the brake
valves?" He says: "No, we are going to put out a notice!" After I got done
rolling on the cab floor laughing, they decided they had something more
important to do somewhere else and left me alone.
Mike Decker
----- Original Message -----
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:58:38 EDT
From: amtrak347@a...
Subject: Re: X/O Speed
I remember talking with several "old timers" and Karl, about the "Northerns"
equipped with electric straight air. Then, as now, when an engineer applied
the train brakes, air exhausted (made noise) in the cab of the locomotive.
With electric straight air, there was no "exhaust" aka "noise" in the cab,
as
brakes were applied "electrically" on each car. Trainline pressure was not
reduced to apply the brakes as with the typical brake system.
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