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- From: 737ochs@gw.wmich.edu
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- Subject: Re: Alcos Chugging (was Alcos Stalling)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.231621.6467@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:16:21 EST
- References: <1992Nov18.145240.16329@bony1.bony.com> <01GR8G20IQ7C95NCKV@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU> <1ea25lINNo7e@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1egdrsINNqp8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1egdrsINNqp8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema) writes:
- >
- > 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:
- >
- >>> 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.
-
- Yea, the Alco 251B is particularly loud. The other day, I was watching a CP
- Rail runthrough to Chicago over CSX, and it had an MLW C424 and an MLW RS18
- and boy was that RS18 chugging along, a lot louder than that C424, of course
- the RS18 is 6-8 years older, but it was rebuilt for yard use sometime in
- the 80's. The 424 might have been rebuilt too, I'm not sure.
- But hearing both of them together is quite neat.
- I also heard an all MLW consist one night pulling a heavy train up about a
- 1% grade. It had 3 M636's on it, probably the best train I've ever heard!
- Now where's that tape recorder when you need it ;^)
-
- Fred
-