[steam_tech] DPM convincing?

[NW Mailing List]

Do you have any specific figures on the tonnages, speed, and diesel units?


--- On Tue, 4/29/08, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> Subject: Re: [steam_tech] DPM convincing?

> To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

> Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 9:29 AM

> In a message dated 4/29/2008 8:20:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight

> Time,  

> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

> 

> What  happened to N&W fast freights after 

> dieselization?

> 

> 

> 

> Dave:

> On the Atlantic Region, the time freights were usually

> assigned

> sufficient power.  Norfolk Terminal always kept an eye on

> No.  86--

> it had the Ford parts.  As a rule of thumb, one could

> figure 45  mins.

> after it passed the hot box detector at Dwight, it would be

> arriving at Portlock.  In timetables,  there were special 

> instructions

> limiting the tonnage no. 77 could haul.

>  

> The Lake Region - well power for the time freights was

> something

> else.  The overseers in the Terminal Tower in Cleveland

> would  raise

> holy hades if TC-3 left Bellevue late.  There's some

> formula  engineering

> types know as "balancing speed".  On TC-3 to Fort

> Wayne,  there

> were three 4-axle units, including an ex-Wabash geep. 

> There

> we were on the sixty-mile tangent between Arcadia and Fort

> Wayne

> and TC-3 "balanced" at 21 MPH. 

>  

> On January 26, 1978, engs 2907 and 1331 left Lima with

> jam-up 

> tonnage.  N&W tonnage ratings factored in cold weather

> --  the

> colder the weather, the less tonnage could be hauled.  Well

> the cold weather factor went unfactored that night.  Top

> speed ?

> 18 MPH downhill from Fort Recovery to the Wabash River. 

> Ball

> State University recorded a temperature of 9 degrees (F)

> about

> the time the train arrived in Muncie.

>                                                     Harry

> Bundy

> 

> 

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