Re: 4014 will drag a diesel to Boone July 15
Author: Big Boy
Date: 05-27-2019 - 20:39
Hot Water Wrote:
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> Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> > If the diesel's dynamic brakes surge
> periodically,
> > this will create slack action in the trailing
> > cars.
>
> Well, in all the years that I have been involved
> with SP 4449, UP 844, and UP 3985, I know of no
> surging having ever taken place when the
> diesel/diesels in the consist were using dynamic
> brake. Especially on those few occasions when the
> diesel was placed in dynamic brake in order to
> increase the trailing load a bit on the steam
> locomotive.
Don't know about 4449 but the old UP crew would have never let the steam loco and the diesel get into a tug of war with a passenger train.
If they needed something to pull against, they would have simply set the train brakes a bit.