QUOTE: Originally posted by Old Timer QUOTE: Originally posted by Paul Milenkovic So why is Amtrak running their P42's both units nose first? They lose the advantage of not having to turn them? Is it if they have to cut off a locomotive enroute that they don't have to turn the second locomotive? Amtrak didn't start that practice with the P42s. They have always tried to do it on long runs so if the lead engine failed, the second engine was pointed the right way and could drag the train to the next maintenance point. Old Timer
QUOTE: Originally posted by Paul Milenkovic So why is Amtrak running their P42's both units nose first? They lose the advantage of not having to turn them? Is it if they have to cut off a locomotive enroute that they don't have to turn the second locomotive?
QUOTE: Originally posted by erikthered My question has to do with numbering- on some of the Southern railroad E units I have seen, the numbers are followed by an "A" (meaning lead unit?), a "B" (meaning trail unit?) and sometimes a "T".... what is that all about? Erik
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If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
QUOTE: Originally posted by David_Telesha QUOTE: Originally posted by BaltACD QUOTE: Originally posted by dirtyd79 I think yet another reason is the railroad probably thought they looked better that way. Railroads don't think about looks when it comes to moving tonnage. They used to... The New Haven also had to run AA back to back with some of their engines (DL109s) because of the lack of MU cables in the nose, though 2 units recieved them - one had the nose completely rebuilt. The NH's FA-1's routinely ran ABBA or ABA, even ABB, and AA. I think there is one pic of a ABBBA set!!!!!!!!!
QUOTE: Originally posted by BaltACD QUOTE: Originally posted by dirtyd79 I think yet another reason is the railroad probably thought they looked better that way. Railroads don't think about looks when it comes to moving tonnage.
QUOTE: Originally posted by dirtyd79 I think yet another reason is the railroad probably thought they looked better that way.
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