Charlie --
What "operational experience" with the E5 B units do you mean?
Are you saying the Q had trouble with them?
--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
wrote:
> An interesting question.
> Suburban Service is an obvious answer, but does the logic
really apply?
> The Pooling of Suburban power didn't start until when?? Well
after all the
> E7s were purchased and by then the No B Units pattern had
been firmly
> established.
> I would guess that the operational experience with the E5B
units triggered
> the policy before the Suburban pooling with the Zephyr units
came into
> being.
> Also, there is an urban legend that the Q was very serious
about buying FM
> Trainmasters for suburban power (ala SP)..... That would be an
interesting
> series of articles (throw in the six wheel trailing truck on the
O5s!)
> .....experiments, proposals and could have beens based on
AFEs (if any
> survived!). Sort of like that fascinating chapter in Hol Wagner's
Colorado
> Road!!!
> Charlie
>
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