QUOTE: Originally posted by electrolove BTW: How did they turn around the California or Rio Grande Zephyr?
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QUOTE: Originally posted by dingoix does running engines in different directions have anything to do with wear on the traction motors?
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QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley That's the answer. When the train gets to the end of the line, the crew can just walk down to the other cab and go back the other way. Turntables hardly exist anymore, except on model railroads. Wyes take up a lot of real estate, and when you get to full-scale, there's no big hand to come out of the sky and turn your engines the other way. Many US commuter-rail trains (the ones that take people between the suburbs and cities for work every day) run in "push-pull" mode with a locomotive on one end only. The end passenger car also has a control cab which links to the locomotive in the rear when it's going the other direction.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by cwclark yes, that is the reason they do it... it keeps the lead locomotive with the front facing forward and all they have to do is make a run around move and the train has the front of the engine pointing to the front at the other end of the train if need be....chuck