Another problem with the GE's was if you had an all GE consist and
had a wheel slip dragging uphill you were likely to end up in two
pieces due to the resulting jerk when they decided to load up
again. With SD40-2's you hardly felt the wheelslip and they loaded
back up smoothly.
Dick Haave
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--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@...> wrote:
>
> They didn't call them "General Defectives" for nothing!
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Mitch <soocarman79@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:38 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: U Boats/SD40's.
>
>
>
> Â
>
> My brother was working at the Lincoln Diesel shop when the first U-boats
> arrived on the property. The foreman told the holster to move them and they
> had spread the rail and were all sitting on the rails. He said more than once
> they would rattle themselves appart as the went down the road. He never had
> anything good to say about the GE's except they were job security right from
> the factory. Don't recall anything bad said about the EMD's.
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, dhartman@ wrote:
> >
> > I always felt like the U-boat was going to go off the rail at the same
> > speed the SD was just cruising along. It just never felt right....
> > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@>
> > Sender: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 07:29:46
> > To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com<CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> > Reply-To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [CBQ] U Boats/SD40's.
> >
> > I totally agree with Doug Hartman concerning the difficulties associated
> > with climbing up on a GE AND the difficulties attendant to finally
> > GETTIN' in the cab !
> > Â
> > The throttle was a never-ending amazement to me. Why 16 notches?, few of
> > them worked !!! A gauge light "dimmer" that wouldn't dim the gauge
> > lights. A ground relay reset that was inaccessable from the cab.Â
> > Transition events that registered at least 7.5 on the Richter Scale, an
> > empty boiler room and a toilet STUFFED into the nose rendering it nearly
> > unusable plus myriad other issues unique to these "things" !!
> > Â
> > I can say that the arrival of the C30-7's was a welcomed day. THOSE were
> > some fine locomotives !! Quiet in the cab, quite good ride qualities,
> > dependable and VERY good pullers.Â
> > Â
> > The SD40 and, in its final form, the SD40-2 was without equal. Tireless
> > creatures that rarely failed to do more than they were supposed ta do. In
> > a Locomotive Hall of Fame the 40-2 would certainly be present !!!
> > Â
> > 70MAC's ?? Now THAT's a WHOLE different world !!!
> > Â
> > Karl
> >
>
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