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Re: slug railroad or slug railway
Author: SP5103
Date: 01-12-2020 - 10:09

>The Southern Pacific used slugs (TEBU's) on the Coos Bay line.

Also used on the Tillamook Hauler between Brooklyn and Batterson, and I believe the Toledo Hauler too.

A spare TEBU set or two may have worked out of Eugene either on the Siskiyou or as helpers on the Cascade line. Some of the copper branches in Arizona/New Mexico were regular assignments. Don't recall if the NWP ever had them assigned, even though the GE mate set tested there.

A GP40-2/TEBU/GP40-2 slug set allowed SP to have the same tractive effort as a pair of SD40-2s without the wheel/rail wear of a six-axle unit or having to maintain a third prime mover of a third four-axle unit. Likewise, the OC&E sets approximated a pair of SD7s.

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  slug railroad or slug railway Don B 01-10-2020 - 19:38
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway OPRRMS 01-10-2020 - 20:41
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway HUTCH 7.62 01-10-2020 - 21:01
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway i don't know but 01-10-2020 - 22:24
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway tundraboomer 01-11-2020 - 13:54
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway Todd Montgomery 01-12-2020 - 01:29
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway SP5103 01-12-2020 - 10:09
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway FUD 01-12-2020 - 15:11
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway George Andrews 01-12-2020 - 19:22
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway SP5103 01-13-2020 - 08:37
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway Rasputin 01-13-2020 - 09:28
  Dunes Pacific Railway? Jeff Moore 01-13-2020 - 21:23
  Re: Dunes Pacific Railway? Riverson 01-14-2020 - 08:51
  Re: Dunes Pacific Railway? Jeff Moore 01-14-2020 - 22:20
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway Todd Montgomery 01-14-2020 - 01:40
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway SP5103 01-14-2020 - 16:53
  Re: slug railroad or slug railway Todd Montgomery 01-15-2020 - 01:03


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