In a message dated 1/22/2001 12:25:04 PM Central Standard Time,
mdecker@g... writes:
> and I
> drug it and the other 18,557 tons of coal into Edgemont with the two on the
> point.
Hi Mike -
Not to rub salt in the wound, but..... six days a week I regularly have
17,000 HORSEPOWER on trains #3 & #4 between Chicago and Ft. Madison, IA. Of
course, with all the mail and express tied on, we have had up to 29 cars!!!!
Keep in mind, though, 400-600 HP is used for HEP (head-end-power) so we only
have about 6 or 7 horsepower per trailing ton. Keep that perishible coal
"flyin" and out of the way of Amtrak!!!
Bob Campbell
Naperville, IL
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