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- From: billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp)
- Subject: Re: GE chugging
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.145240.16329@bony1.bony.com>
- Organization: LA&W RR
- References: <01GR8G20IQ7C95NCKV@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU> <1ea25lINNo7e@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:52:40 GMT
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- In article <1ea25lINNo7e@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, U93_PTUPACZE@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (Prime Mover Software Development) says:
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- >>GE's chugging have long been a part of my railroad memories. I grew up on the
- >>Erie Lackawanna Boonton Line, and their freight U33C/U36C's were fairly
- >>common. But even better were their U34CH commuter units - their HEP generators
- >>were run off the prime mover; hence, they were always running at the
- >>equivalent of Run 6 - so you can imagine the sound as they accelerated from a
- >>stop! WOW! Today's Susquehanna's DASH 8-40B's still have that familiar GE
- >>chug, though I think GE's figured out how to quiet 'em down - you can only
- >>hear the Suskie's units when they notch out climbing up Sparta Mountain or on
- >>the grade out of Butler. The spirit is still there.
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- What is really dramatic is to find a U34CH which needs a tune up. Catch
- one of those accelerating from a station stop and not only do you get
- that chug, but black smoke that almost rivals the best Alcos!
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- > They share more than that...GE's FDL-16 has the same bore, stroke, and RPM
- >as the Alco 251. I made some recordings of GBW C424's last summer, and
- >was surprised at how similar they sounded to the B23-7's I got on the ATSF.
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- Speaking of Alco, ever notice how the older ones idle just above
- "stall"? I remember listening to CNJ RS3's and NYS&W RS1's idling.
- You'd swear they would stall at any moment. But they never did, they
- just kept on.
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