Tonnage Rating of Locomotives

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Fri Aug 4 18:19:06 EDT 2006


I don't see anything heroic in burning up traction motors and wearing out engines prematurely. Unfortunately, this "school" of thought still persists, to stubbornly refuse to put enough power on Sandusky coal trains to get more than half of them over the road (on my district) without a recrew. Not to mention clogging up the RR at 30mph max. - Keith, Ft. Wayne
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About 15 years ago, the Vice President-Mechanical had to complete
a study on how the department's assets were used. He elected to
show the horsepower per ton assigned to 1- TOFC trains 2- Merchandise
trains 3- Hopper trains, 4- locals, and 5- coal trains. In developing
this statistic, it became apparent that Bluefield and Roanoke were
regularly dispatching coal trains as much as 1800 tons over the tonnage
rating. Bear in mind that both Bluefield and Roanoke knew the
tonnage being dispatched, but apparently ignored the instructions in
the timetable. It was brought to the attention of the Operating Dept.
Within a year, the Operating Department arbitrarily raised the
tonnage ratings by 10%.
Harry Bundy


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