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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by y-back guy Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that a freight train that has all articulated cars can do the same speed as a passenger train is permited to around curves. I remember reading that somewhere. Whether it was a true statment I'm not sure. I also believe that Santa Fe had or attempted to run fast piggy backs at 79 miles per hour with a few locomotives which were re-geared to achieve the higher speed. Correct me if I'm wrong on this. I'm interested to know. I seem to remember reading something on this. [/quote] You are not far off. A train on the BNSF that is totally articulated cars can run a max of 70 mph,loaded or empty...an empty NON-articulated car will restrict you to 55 in most areas. The locomotives are not geared to run 90 as Amtrack does here in the desert...70 mph ,after that the overspeed alerter goes off and will shut down the train if the engineer does not respond and reduce to 70 mph or below......Santa Fe did have 79 mph Super-c freight service in the late 60's,but running one train so much faster that the others created problems,IE, the slower trains had to be sure to be clear well ahead of the super-c....that basically slowed down the entire railroad down to expedite one train....not a good trade off.....BNSF Conductor.......
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