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[quote user="jeffhergert"][quote user="greyhounds"] 2.  Why are locomotives such pieces of crap?  They fail regularly.  It seems that a machine that cost $1.5 million plus ought to run reliably.   [/quote]   A while back I caught a westbound intermodal with 4 brand new SD70ace's. The odometer on the computer screen was 332 miles when I got on at Boone, which is about the distance from Chicago.  The new paint smell was so strong down in the nose a person could get a buzz from the fumes.     Around Carroll, Iowa I started to notice a faint odor like hot electrical wiring.  About half way up Arcadia hill I started getting ground relay reset faults.  The locomotive help desk told me to cut out the lead truck traction motors the next time we stopped.  If that didn't stop the faults, try cutting out the trailing truck.  We stopped at Vail, Iowa behind a train that had to check a hot box hit. I cut out the lead truck and all my faults disappeared off the screen.  We got a signal to go and started to roll.  That is everything but the lead axle which had locked up and wouldn't turn. That was quite a night.  Jeff  [/quote] Heh. Root causes if not solved immediately tend to cascade into bigger failures. (More expensive ones) But with a virgin unit? I suspect they must have maybe.. slipped it to delivery without a complete Q/A check.
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