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> Re: 2926 status
> Author: Boy Big
> Date: 05-14-2021 - 16:56
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> Boy Big Wrote:
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> > Apply Woody Wrote:
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> > > Found a video made by visitor of 2926.
> There's
> > an
> > > interesting control box in the cab to control
> a
> > > diesel loco. When I saw this loco in person
> a
> > few
> > > years ago there was also a lot of new control
> > air
> > > piping for PTC crap. They must be close to
> > > finished by now.
> > >
> > > [www.youtube.com]
> >
> > A little hard to believe, since there has yet
> to
> > be
> > any PTC equipment even invented for steam.
> >
> > And what's "interesting" about the diesel
> control
> > box?
> > A number of steam locomotives have those; some
> > have had
> > them for decades.
>
>
> Hey Boy Big!
>
> While it may be hard for you to believe the 2926
> group installed PTC because you are not aware of
> it, they have just completed the job.
>
> As I said last May, when I saw the 2926 several
> years ago, they were installing PTC. I saw the
> mass of tubing being carefully fitted in a tight
> space under the cab. It looked like something
> engineered for a NASA project. Pretty cool.
>
> Now go shut up.

Take your own advice Woodhead.

PTC has very little to do with air, certainly nothing to do with a "mass of
tubing under the cab." And there is no way they were installing it "several
years ago", since the entire industry (nor the FRA) hadn't figured it out yet.

Grow up, dude.