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Not goin' outside for a pic... Maybe shoot through the window. (Unless it's gone).

Looks like a MRL SD 40-2...out on the Balmer Office Spur...

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Gone. Damnit! It was there when I went ta get the paper about an hour ago...

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Did work on another 40-2 yesterday. BNsf seems ta be using 'em ta 'help' RCLs in yards for extra TE on longer/heavier cuts, and trims.

We have one enroute ta Interbay for a turbo change as we speak. Yep. Turbocharged locomotives don't run well below N-6 all the time...or idle for weeks at a time.

Ya want a yard unit? Use a blower engine... A six-axle, heavy unit...2000-HP. Not a 3000-HP SD-40!

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Uke wrote:

Gone. Damnit! It was there when I went ta get the paper about an hour ago...

It's OK, Uke.

People who have had untreated brain injuries due to taking a header off of a locomotive often have been known to imagine things.

We're OK with that.



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Thanks for your understanding. Snippy.

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Next time, use a singin' Wing:



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SD40s dont make good yard engines? Say what?

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Uke's a member of the EMD Turbo Preservation Society.

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Uke is a pervert, left his weird unit outside.

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SD-40's replaced the SD-7's that retired on the yard jobs in Cumberland.
Now the RCO's are usually a SD-40 MU'd to a GP-38.

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Hey fuck all yuo guyz! It was the MRL 251. Don't know what happened to it...but it's gone.

BNsf continues renumbering the 40s, and placing 'em in yard-service, where they NEVER wind up past N-4, 5... But the original 3000-HP is wasted!

Had one show up over the weekend from Spokane, right outa maintenance with a 'bad turbo' reported.

Checked it over for the B/O turbo...refilled it with hot water, replaced GURU plags...took at outside, and fired it up, and loaded it for about 45 minutes.

So much for a bad turbo. A bad turbo wouldn't run like that! But these guys can't troubleshoot ta save themselves!

Units used in yard service should be 2000-HP, blower engines. NOT turbocharged power.

But then again, whaddo I know?

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Uke wrote:
where they NEVER wind up past N-4, 5...

I don't know how they do it in BNSF land, but out here other than idle the engine could spend most of the time in N8.


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That's from dragging around all those mother fucking hand brakes.

The scab wheel shops need the work.

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Snippy wrote:

That's from dragging around all those mother fucking hand brakes.


That and the hopes of an early quit.

 



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Uke is weird unit.

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