Good point. When I drove coast to coast, I had seen all kinds of units in consist. In 1963 on my trip into the US Navy, we were on the NYC from NY to Chicargo. When we arrived at LaSalle I thought the engine power was strange when compared to how model trains were shown in ads. In elephant style the unints from the lead unit were F7a, E7b, and a E8a. It seamed rather strange. I am not sure why or where the power units were joined on the Wolverine. I would think the E8 was put on at Harmon and the F & Eb might have came on from the Boston section at Albany,NY. The E8 more then likely had hot water heater for the consist. Some say that railroads add power to what is needed to pull the train to it's destination. I am sure that would be true. I dout an SD would switch in Boston.
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:34 AM, "mountain4822000" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ed Davis, not sure this was discussed. On mixing six axle motors (SD) and 4 > axles (GP), am not an engineer, but I thought the SD engines would drag the > GP units if there were more ratio of SD's vs GP's in the same consist. I > remember seeing one SD unit with several GP units on the West Md in the 70's. > Also heard they are better paired up with sister axle units. You may get away > with the right units being paired up if the terrain, speed and weight of the > train all work together. > Without getting too much off model rr topic, maybe our 2 resident engineers > and one conductor (sorry if I missed anyone) could explain the mix briefly. I > am curious now even if it have to go off line. regards Jerry Smith Arnold, Md > at [email protected] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
