DPU trains (was Re: Thunder on Blue Ridge)

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Mon Jan 17 16:43:38 EST 2011


Referring to DPU remote control units. Not manned pushers.

Nathan

Nathan Simmons
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On 1/17/2011 14:52, NW Mailing List wrote:

> Are you all referring to DPU's as remote control or controlled by a

> crew in the locomotive.

> The old WV law on the H-town District did not permit remote control

> units in their state.

> Terry Marshall

> H-town, MD

> In a message dated 1/17/2011 2:14:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

>

>

> > About 6:30 AM stack train 202 went east through Jonesborough TN

> today

> > with a DPU pushing on the rear.

>

> 202 and 23G both just came through Christiansburg within the last

> hour.

> 202 did not have DPU, but 23G did.

>

> As for DPUs being illegal in WV, NS has been running DPU coal

> trains out

> on the Pocahontas Division for the last couple years, so I guess not.

>

> Joe Shaw

> Christiansburg, VA

> http://www.krunk.org/

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