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Calvin


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Ya'all gotta remember if you have a steep hard pull up, you have a free fall down, the other way.
Lotta heavy coal starts out on top of the mountain and comes down as loads. then you have relatively light emptys going back up hill. 

In the East, freight starts out goes up the Allegheny ridge, then comes back down the other side.
As they get more and more Locomotives that store the energy gained by coming downhill with dynamic brakes, look for the fuel mileage figure to improve.


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At 200 tons and 4,400 horsepower, the $2 million General Electric-built locomotive sitting in an oversized garage represents the consummation of that relationship, thanks to its gleaming, GPS-enabled guts.

Chief Executive James Young has spent the past year revving up a GPS refit of his company's 6,000 locomotives at a cost of $60,000 apiece.

Concurrently, the company is beefing up signal capacity along 32,000 miles of track as part of a $1.4 billion total outlay.

The vast new system will pinpoint a locomotive's location within one yard, improving safety and fuel efficiency.

It's an expensive job -- especially in lean times -- but Young didn't have a choice. After a Los Angeles commuter train collided head-on with a Union Pacific locomotive in September 2008, killing 26 people, Congress passed the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008, which required Union Pacific and the other major railroads to implement a new train control system by December 31, 2015.

For Union Pacific, the world's largest railroad, that means refitting an average of 2.5 locomotives, 10 wayside interfaces and 10 miles of track every day for the next seven years.


They are doing 1 Engine a day in Cumberland. Don't know about Huntington.
Shop feller was tellin me the Wabco guys that are overseeing and OK'ing the work were impressed with the CSX employees. They did in 3 hours what the NS guys in Juniata took 3 days to do.

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I have run out of gas several times running down to KFalls, and Im not the only one to do so. You can look in the mirror coming out one of the long tunnels like 3 or 7 and those 5000's look more like Malleys than GEVOs.

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