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Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers
Author: Ken Johnson
Date: 10-12-2009 - 07:49

Sorry, I've been told that locomotives' brake effort-to-weight ratio is too poor to stop light units on steep grades. It sounds like b.s., but not too much since you only have 12 brake shoes and some dynamic braking for 200 tons of machine gliding on steel rails.

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  Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers Freericks 10-09-2009 - 22:47
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers George Andrews 10-10-2009 - 09:28
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers Freericks 10-10-2009 - 10:27
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers OPRRMS 10-10-2009 - 11:16
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers Steven D. Johnson 10-10-2009 - 11:30
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers OPRRMS 10-10-2009 - 12:21
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers Steven D. Johnson 10-10-2009 - 12:52
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers jst3751 10-12-2009 - 10:14
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers Ken Johnson 10-12-2009 - 07:49
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers ron, 10-10-2009 - 20:09
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers JMBissen 10-11-2009 - 14:07
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers E 10-11-2009 - 22:57
  Re: Pallet ladders Steven D. Johnson 10-12-2009 - 04:32
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers Ken Johnson 10-12-2009 - 07:45
  Re: Wreck Damaged GP60 and SD60M at Pacific Rail Dismantlers M. Harris 10-13-2009 - 16:17


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