I don't want to drift too far off subject, but. . In ~1964 I had the fortune of riding Santa Fe from KC to Chicago on the overnight Chicagoan(?). We had A-B-B-B-A F-7s and about 20 cars. When we came off the Mississippi River Bridge and cleared the curve from the bridge, the entire train of lightweight cars, mostly Budds, suddenly lunged forward enough as it picked up speed that I was pushed back in my seat, there was no sign of slack running out. Later in the trip I asked what could have caused this, and it was suggested that all 5 units had transitioned at the same instant. Also, remember that F-2s and FT-s had "manual" transition, and even to their demise, it was cautioned on RI to have them lead newer automatic-transition units, as they could get burned out if they were trailing. Replicating that in the model venue could be a real trick.
Dave Engle KCMO ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:26 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: LokSound select decoders 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"? > > >
