The speed is what controls whether or not the engine goes through transition.  
Usually they are set at about 24-26 mph for the engine to transition.  The 
reason they are set in that range is so a consist doesn't transition all at the 
same time.  Bad for the engines and bad for the train if you're on a grade and 
all transition at the same time. :*(

Greg Elems

--- In [email protected], "railroadpaul" <railroadpaul@...> wrote:
>
> 
> I dont know, I was watching some video of a GP-9 sorting cars and you can 
> here the engine throttle up all the way with no transition and as soon as the 
> crew got her moving the engineer would throttle down to iddle "with no 
> transition" and coast through the switch, and they were working that engine 
> hard...
> paul welsheimer
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Brian Jackson" <brian__jackson@> wrote:
> >
> > When the 567 sounds like it's shifting down to notch 1 or 2, isn't that 
> > called "making transition"?
> >
>




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