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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by kevarc</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Sterling1</i> <br /><br />You do realize that North American railroading is so unlike Eupoean railroads who have the better and FASTer alignments? <br />Increased speed does put extra wear on the equipment and on the locos in fuel consumption and in maintenence. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Yes, and their average haul is less than 500 miles. That makes a huge difference. <br /> <br />When the UP and BNSF ran the UPS test trains, they were able to make it over the road . But the had to stick so many other trains in holes or hold them that they screwed things up and showed that the train, while by itself, was feasable, it messed things up so badm teh other costs for dead trains and delays, more than whiped out the profit margin for that train. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Here is something for you guys to chew on : I just been reading a British mag called "THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE" Oct. 2004 issue . Their cover story is a cabride on a Freightliner EMD built Class 66 loco, double cabbed,low slung by our standards, C-C, and I think 3800 HP. <br /> <br />The run was 248 miles for a scheduled time of 8.5 hours, DRIVER ONLY including two breaks . The train was a COFC train with approx 1600' in length and 1134 trailing US tons, about 76 of their standard car lengths. The locomotive weighs about 277,200 LBS. A little more than our GP40-2 but nowwhere near the 410,000 of our Dash9-44CW's!! <br /> <br />The max speed was 75 MPH. Most of the running was in the 60 to 65 MPH range. The train was only 20 MIN late. Which is good considering the "driver" had lot of temporary speed restrictions(Railtrack has screwed up the old British Rail infastructure BIG TIME) and alot of pssenger traffic to wade through. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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