Betting big on Ford. Typically when a member of the Ford Family becomes directly involved in a project such as the Electric Program and the Michigan Central Station rehab.......good things happen with the company. I think they are going to out compete GM with their electric trucks.
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/07/23/electric-ford-f-150-tows-1-million-pounds/
10 auto-rack/ multi-level cars - first empty, then loaded with 42 F-150s.
It's late for me tonight, so I'll leave it to someone else to work out the math for the rolling resistance of those cars, the tractive effort of the truck that would be needed, and what the factor of adhesion might be for the truck. Assume the track is level.
Reminds me of the ad when the four women pulled the Timken roller-bearing equipped "Four Aces" Northern steam locomotive - see the photo about halfway down this page:
https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/timken-1111-trials-on-the-nyc-circa-1930.121136/
It later became NP 2626, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timken_1111
See also this link here, 3rd post from the top has a photo of NYC 6001:
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/740/t/115937.aspx?sortorder=desc
- PDN.
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