Tonnage Rating of Locomotives

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I don't see anything heroic in burning up traction motors and wearing out engines prematurely. Unfortunately, this "school" of thought still persists, to stubbornly refuse to put enough power on Sandusky coal trains to get more than half of them over the road (on my district) without a recrew. Not to mention clogging up the RR at 30mph max. - Keith, Ft. Wayne
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  Subject: Re: Tonnage Rating of Locomotives


  About 15 years ago, the Vice President-Mechanical had to complete
  a study on how the department's assets were used.  He elected to
  show the horsepower per ton assigned to 1- TOFC trains 2- Merchandise
  trains 3- Hopper trains,  4- locals, and 5- coal trains.  In developing
  this statistic, it became apparent that Bluefield and Roanoke were
  regularly dispatching coal trains as much as 1800 tons over the tonnage
  rating.  Bear in mind that both Bluefield and Roanoke knew the
  tonnage being dispatched, but apparently ignored the instructions in
  the timetable.  It was brought to the attention of the Operating Dept.
  Within a year, the Operating Department arbitrarily raised the
  tonnage ratings by 10%.  
                                                       Harry Bundy


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