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Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive?
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 07-21-2019 - 17:05

OPRRMS Wrote:
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> BOB2 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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>
> > I was wondering how they pulled? I've heard
> that
> > they didn't have the tractive effort to start
> the
> > kind of heavy trains we run in the US, and
> > especially the kind we ran on the SP.
>
> I, too, had no personal experience with them and
> don't have any Tonnage Ratings charts from that
> era, but based on photos, it would appear that on
> the San Joaquin and Western divisions, a single KM
> was rated the same (or close to) as two F7s or
> GP9s. Later, a single SD45 was rated for 10,000
> tons on the "flatlands," and it was said that a
> single SD45 was considered the same as two F7s, so
> you can kinda go from there.
>
> Ironically, the code I had to enter for this post
> was "YXVKM."

It just occurred to me that you've likely referring to the M-Ks, not the KMs. I guess the mention of the 9010 threw me. So, scratch my answer.

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Sulzer Jack S 07-21-2019 - 11:12
  Re: Sulzer OPRRMS 07-21-2019 - 12:28
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? BOB2 07-21-2019 - 14:06
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? WAF 07-21-2019 - 14:41
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? OPRRMS 07-21-2019 - 15:12
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? OPRRMS 07-21-2019 - 17:05
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? Curtis R. Milburn 07-21-2019 - 15:38
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? Dr Zarkoff 07-21-2019 - 17:50
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? Bill B 07-21-2019 - 18:58
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? Jack S. 07-22-2019 - 06:12
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? Damon Hill 07-21-2019 - 19:53
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? OPRRMS 07-21-2019 - 20:48
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? OPRRMS 07-21-2019 - 20:56
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? Jack S. 07-22-2019 - 06:10
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? George Andrews 07-22-2019 - 17:30
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? J Mann 07-23-2019 - 09:01
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? Dick O'Kane 07-23-2019 - 11:29
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? George Andrews 07-23-2019 - 18:32
  Re: Sulzer How did they pull in actual service, with the sulzer maybach drive? OPRRMS 07-23-2019 - 20:18


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