Re: SD9 automatic transition?
Author: FEF-3
Date: 11-14-2017 - 10:04
102500 Wrote:
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> There was a transition lever above the throttle on
> all the SD9s i ever worked on. The SD9 itself was
> auto transition but the engineer could manually
> transition trailing manual transition locomotives
> with that lever on the lead unit.
Yes, and on GP7s and GP9s, too. Aside from transition,
that same lever was used to put the locomotive into
dynamic braking.