Re: C class's and Belarine Peninsula Railways (two qns)

[Eben Levy <ebenlevy@klever.net.au>]

Tell wrote:

> markbau1@aol.com (MarkBau1) wrote and I quote
> selectively:
> >Poppycock! EMD has moved to 4 stroke because they cannot go up to the next
> >horsepower plateu with their existing 2 stroke engine.
>
> Could you please elaborate on this horsepower plateau.
>
> >Regarding fuel consumption, similar EMD and GE models have very
> >similar fuel consumption, in fact SD40-2's and C30-7's had
> >identical fuel consumption.
>
> I have no real facts on this, and would be interested
> in seeing actual figures.  I only know from reading,
> not experience that US RR's claim the GE's were more
> fuel efficient, we "understand" from this group that
> one of the main reasons Goninan/GE were awarded the NRC
> contract for the NR class loco's was fuel effeciency.

Fuel effeciency for the railways is not HOW much they use when hualing a train
but HOW little they use when sitting idle :-}

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Eben.

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