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Someone in this group had better notify American Electric Power that the TWO automated coal trains that they ran in Southeastern Ohio without incident for 30+ years cannot have happened. They were operated with "off the shelf" 5000 HP electric locomotives and standard 100 ton hopper cars (with automated dumping mechanisms). The trains even sounded their horns for the crossings, of which there were several. <br /> <br />Amazingly this was a single track operation and usually both trainsets were active and running. The loaded set would wait at the mine until the empty returned to the loading track. Then the loaded train would proceed to the dumping site, dump the coal and immendiately return. <br /> <br />Watching the engine go past without any crew was strange enough, but the return trips to the mine was even stranger. Try watching a hopper car come at you with operating headlight and horns! AEP stopped using the trains because the strip mine got close enough to the power plant to simply use a conveyor belt. Outside of the usual startup glitches you get with a new system there was no problems with this operation.
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