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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wmichgw!195ochs
- From: 195ochs@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Genesee & Wyoming Now in Oregon
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.002233.7516@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:22:33 EST
- References: <1993Jan18.201448.12869@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> <122200199@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <122200199@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, wbrill@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Warren Brill) writes:
- > In rec.railroad, johnm@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com.mcm.hp.com (John Mosbarger) writes:
- >
- >> As had been mentioned in various railfan publications, SP has selected
- >> the Genesee & Wyoming RR to operate its westside branchlines, except for the
- >> Coos Bay and Tillamook Branches. Last Friday (1/15) the agreement was
- >> finally signed, and the new operator should be running its own trains by
- >> this summer. Instead of trains operating out of Portland on the north end
- >> and Eugene on the south, The G&W will run from Eugene to Albany via trackage
- >> rights, and then onto the Toledo Branch to access Corvallis, McMinnville,
- >> Dawson, Monroe, Newberg, et.al.
- >>
- >> These branches had been pretty much the domain of SD9's, but rumor has
- >> it that SP informed the G&W that it did not want them to run any 6-axle
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > Why not? Wasn't the whole purpose of
- > S(pecial) D(uty) locomotives with 6
- > axles to better distribute the weight
- > so as to not damage lighter (branch
- > line) track? Or am I missing something?
- > Is the weight that much higher on an
- > SD than a Geep?
- >
-
- SD's are mostly used for more traction, since they have more traction
- motors. GP's are lighter and are also typically used for highspeed trains
- (intermodal, etc)
- Here's some typical weights of locos from Chessie System and CSX
- (sort of an approximate, since different class engines weighed differently)
-
- GP 7/9 250,000
- SD 7/9 370,000 (these were ballasted to make them slightly heavier)
- GP35 260,000
- SD35 390,000
- GP38 270,000
- SD38 380,000
- GP40 275,000
- SD40 390,000
-
- and also some GE's to compare:
- U30B 277,000
- U30C 377,000
- B30-7 277,000
- C30-7 385,000 and 411,500 (they have 2 different weights listed)
- B40-8 288,000
- C40-8 395,000
-
- So you can clearly see that there is typically 120,000-140,000
- pounds between a B and a C trucked engine. This is very crucial on branch
- lines. Most branchlines will be restricted to a GP30, GP35 or GP38 or GP40
- or GP7/9 on some RR's (CSX doesn't have any GP7/9's left, they usually use
- GP30,GP38.GP39,GP40 GP16 (rebuilt GP7/9's) and U18B,U36B, and B30-7's
- on the locals in Michigan. Mostly GP30's and GP40's since they have scads
- of GP40's (and GP40-2's)
-
- Hope this helps!
- Fred
-