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