As of 1130 EST for just today this morning Amtrak had the following trains with mechanical problems. Now we do not claim all are because of loco problems but ? ? Trains 7, 21, 59, 353, 302, 314, 303. Is this because of some problem with loco servicing in CHI?
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For Feb 7th trains 365, 350, 501,500,2, 364, 7, 4 Only 2 not directly affected by CHI ?
blue streak 1As of 1130 EST for just today this morning Amtrak had the following trains with mechanical problems. Now we do not claim all are because of loco problems but ? ? Trains 7, 21, 59, 353, 302, 314, 303.
Have you looked at the weather? It is bitter cold and windy up in this part of the country. In fact here in mid Michigan a couple days ago, the US post office cancelled delivery. Schools were cancelled from the cold. Today it was up to 15 degrees, was colder a couple days ago, but we also had 35 mph winds with it.
This stuff can affect railroads. Pipes can freeze, blowing snow can pack up into traction motors, and so on. I wouldn't automatically blame it on poor maintenance.
Before the line was re-equipped in 1980, South Shore suffered from a lot of the same weather-related problems, especially burned out traction motors caused by ingestion of blowing or drifted snow.
Enzoamps Have you looked at the weather? It is bitter cold and windy up in this part of the country. In fact here in mid Michigan a couple days ago, the US post office cancelled delivery. Schools were cancelled from the cold. Today it was up to 15 degrees, was colder a couple days ago, but we also had 35 mph winds with it. This stuff can affect railroads. Pipes can freeze, blowing snow can pack up into traction motors, and so on. I wouldn't automatically blame it on poor maintenance.
Agree, I could be mistaken but I don't remember seeing specs for operation in -40 to -50 weather......though I am not a locomotive expert by any means.
In the Army, in combat units, if it falls beneath 25 degrees Farenheit and the equipment is stored outdoors, they send the troops out to start the Diesel Engines every four hours and run them for 15 minutes (BTW, BTDT...and not fun during sleep hours).
CSSHEGEWISCHBefore the line was re-equipped in 1980, South Shore suffered from a lot of the same weather-related problems, especially burned out traction motors caused by ingestion of blowing or drifted snow.
PRR suffered through a couple of weather issues on their NEC in 1958 and 1959 - both account blizzards that passed through the area. In 1958 the blizzard consisted of about 18-20 inches of heavy wet snow that tore down the catenary and brought the GG-1's to a stop for a lack of volts. In 1959 the blizzard was an equal amount of dry light snow - the catenary held up fine - the GG-1's ingested the light snow through the traction motor cooling system and ended up shorting out the traction motors. Subsequently the GG-1's recieve modifications to prevent this from happening again.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
As I recall, the fine snow problem was taken care of by installing fine linen filters over the air intakes.
Johnny
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