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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 12:20 AM
Thanks for the info. After I posted I remembered that PG governors are solenoid actuated. So an E8 literally 'flies by wire".
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 1, 2005 9:19 PM
They weren't. They actually operated as two locomotives which just happened to be mounted on one frame. You could shut down one engine and the locomotive could continue on the other, powering just one truck.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 1, 2005 4:45 PM
On passenger diesels with dual engines, how were they synchronized to share an equal load?
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