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[quote user="dldance"] [quote user="beaulieu"]I'm not surprised the Gen-set switcher beat the SD18, as the de-turboed SD24 had a minimal wheel slip system. The real question will be, first "Duty Cycle" how much of the time are the second and third engines running,(less is better), and maintenance. The Soo Line was fairly happy with their Cat powered road-switchers until the first overhaul came due at about the four year point. Very quickly they all left. The four years wasn't a surprise, but I bet the cost was more than they were expecting. There are a lot of pistons, injectors, injection pumps, etc. on those Gen-sets. We'll will probably have an inkling when the get a few years old. [/quote] reliability is the most important question - but when the gen-sets have been around as long as the SD18 we will have the answer to that question as well. dd [/quote]   By then we might have engines that run off solar power.
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