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A little Q about those EMD "Centennial" locos...
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The Centenials were also used on the high speed Livestock Specials. UP generally put a lot of horsepower on their faster trains to get them over the road, sometimes 8-10 GPs on the western divisions in the early days. They tried GP B-units, then the DD35 B's and later the Centenials. When used in Intermodal service 2 Centenials and a Fast 40 was a common configuration. That's 15,000 horespower, not all that much more than double-headed Challengers common on the faster trains during the steam era.
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