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- From: elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Alcos Stalling (was Re: GE chugging)
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 16:03:08 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov18.145240.16329@bony1.bony.com> <01GR8G20IQ7C95NCKV@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU> <1ea25lINNo7e@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema)
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- In a previous article, billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp) says:
- >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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- >> 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.
- >
- >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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- CVL's RS3 4099 seemed pretty stable when I heard it, but 539-engined Alcos
- another story. There's a recording on the record _First Generation Diesels
- Volume II_ of C&NW RS1 1069 in which the engine really does stall, twice!
- And this was while it was being used! The crew would throttle it up, and when
- they notched it back down to idle, the governor wouldn't pick up in time and
- the engine would stall. I don't know where the isolation switch is on an RS1,
- but if it's back in the engine room like an EMD, I can imagine restarting the
- engine might get a little tedious after a while. I'd guess after about three
- incidents like this the engineer probably cried, "Screw it! Get me a geep!"
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