It's a GE
Author: Shane
Date: 01-15-2011 - 22:39

It's a GE, parts always fall off, some are just more important than others. In 40 years I've only had one EMD throw a piston out the side of the carbody, and that was an SD-45 that was leaking water into one cylinder and it filled with water and experienced hydrostatic lockup in run-8. (Kept loading until it lost oil pressure, making an ungodly noise. Couldn't isolate it fast enough. Later roundhouse explained what had happened, totaled the engine block.) But in the last year alone, I've had 5 GE's blow fuel lines and catch fire, 2 throw turbo parts out the stack, and one throw something out the side of the carbody that we never could figure out where it came from and it ran just fine afterwards. But GE's are "green" units---if you don't count the parts that fall off. (GE's have gotten better in recent years, U-25C's had some spectacular problems, not to mention a horrible ride on those funky trucks, and oh, those leaky cab roofs---right up to the standard cab dash-8's.)



Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Still wanna live by the tracks? Dean 01-12-2011 - 14:59
  Re: Still wanna hire out? Severe Duty 01-12-2011 - 17:59
  Re: Still wanna hire out? George Andrews 01-12-2011 - 21:12
  Re: Still wanna hire out? pushin_345 01-12-2011 - 22:09
  It's a GE Shane 01-15-2011 - 22:39
  Re: It's a GE George Andrews 01-16-2011 - 16:07
  Re: Still wanna live by the tracks? Kevin Dunwoody 01-13-2011 - 15:50
  Re: Still wanna live by the tracks? Gerald Wiesinger 01-13-2011 - 18:08
  Re: Still wanna live by the tracks? OPRRMS 01-13-2011 - 19:24
  Re: Still wanna live by the tracks? Red 01-13-2011 - 21:22
  Re: Still wanna live by the tracks? Tony J. 01-13-2011 - 23:20
  Re: Still wanna live by the tracks? Severe Duty 01-14-2011 - 06:49
  Re: Still wanna live by the tracks? George Andrews 01-14-2011 - 07:42
  Re: Still wanna live by the tracks? Tony J. 01-14-2011 - 09:06


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