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What is the driver size? Tractive effort? How fast will it go? Will it pull 12 passenger cars up a steep grade unassisted?

NYC6001 Wrote:
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> What is the driver size?

56 inch driver diameter.

Tractive effort?

77,900 lbs in Compound. 98,300 lbs in simple.

How fast
> will it go?

Generally speaking, as fast as the Engineer has the balls to run her!

Will it pull 12 passenger cars up a
> steep grade unassisted?

Yes.

HotWater Wrote:
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> NYC6001 Wrote:
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> > What is the driver size?
>
> 56 inch driver diameter.
>
> Tractive effort?
>
> 77,900 lbs in Compound. 98,300 lbs in simple.
>
> How fast
> > will it go?
>
> Generally speaking, as fast as the Engineer has
> the balls to run her!
>
> Will it pull 12 passenger cars up a
> > steep grade unassisted?
>
> Yes.


Wow...it IS all in how you phrase the question, isn't it! Good form there JW, but I gotta admit, your usual response is way funnier.

Cheers, Dave

Cheers, Dave

Hillcrest Wrote:
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> Wow...it IS all in how you phrase the question,
> isn't it! Good form there JW, but I gotta admit,
> your usual response is way funnier.
>
> Cheers, Dave

Yup - notice he did not ask "Does anyone know....",
lol.

/Mitch

With that size drivers I would think 35-40 mph after which it would get rough riding and start hammering the track.

tomstp Wrote:
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> With that size drivers I would think 35-40 mph
> after which it would get rough riding and start
> hammering the track.

Absolutely.

Also, that tractive effort figure in simple is
only good up to 3 or 4 mph, because if you leave
it in simple above that, you will run out steam
in very short order.