Re: [CBQ] Diesel operation

["Email mchsi dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

It was something I wondered about in the 70's as we were crawling up Burke or Stratford etc - what cost / benefit analysis the RR was operating under. What the cost of an extra unit was compared to costs of delaying others, doubling, dying and relief crews, etc (to say nothing of crew frustration :). Doug

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Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:52 PM

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Subject: [CBQ] Diesel operation

 

Ken you have received several good answers. One,point not yet made is the priority of the train.

A drag might get 1 horse per trailing ton while a high priority train might get 3 or 4. I have seen extremes of 6 and 8 horses per trailing ton. On one occasion I saw what that much HP can do to a coupler(not the knuckle, but rather what operating RRers call the drawbar). Yanked it out like it wasn't even there from a dead stop. I have been on more than one high priority train where two or three trailing units were turned off line to avoid the above from happening.

On the other hand I was on scores of trains where you wanted to get out and push to help get over the grade. Yes we were moving at less than a walking pace.

Leo Phillipp

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