E.M.D. Questions

[Anonymous]

Would SD50s make good road slugs? Would it make sense to purchase E.M.D's SDP40F test bed? How could you retrofit a F45 to run off the fuel cells that make about 1,000hp each? On the SDF40-2s there is a big empty space behind the prime mover does that empty space exist on SD60Fs? Is it possible to put Flexicoil trucks under a SD75I?


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[Randy Stahl]

A road slug is a sinple machine, any locomotive is a good slug, SD50s would be a good place to start...Whatever it takes to get rid of them!!!!
Don't you think that 1000 HP is a little low for such a big locomotive ? I don't know what type of fuel cells you are reffering to , I suppose you could do about any thing you wanted to do providing the machine will still have utility. I don't knjow what the costs would be but for 1000 HP I hope it would be very low.
There are zero empty spaces on an SD60 F.
It is not possible to put flexicoil trucks under an SD75I. The SD75 does not have a center plate, the traction motor cooling ducts would need to be reworked excessively.
I hope these answers are satisfactory .
Randy

[oltmannd]

I gues you could rewrite the old lawyer joke.... what do you call a few SD50s at the bottom of the ocean?

With regard to the truck question....

If you give a welder enough time, just about anything is possible. Conrail converted some slugs from Alco tri-mounts to Flexicoil, including converting the Flexicoils form single shoe to clasp rigging. It would have been cheaper and easier to plop the slug carbody down on the frame of some retired six axle GEs, but Juniata was short on electricians and long on welders at the time, so the truck swap won out.

[gabe]

Boooo!

Looks like I better learn to swim.

Gabe