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Western Railroad Discussion > "Down in the Weeds"Date: 07/10/20 22:26 "Down in the Weeds" Author: spsniper The BNSF Worm train "Crawls up" the vine on the 2% out of Mojave!
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/11/20 10:32 by spsniper.    Date: 07/10/20 22:45 Re: "Down in the Weeds" Author: spsniper Bye Bye!
   Date: 07/10/20 22:52 Re: "Down in the Weeds" Author: PHall One of those 4 x 3 x 2 Land Barges full of animal feed.
Date: 07/11/20 08:09 Re: "Down in the Weeds" Author: tomstp Wonder what the HP per ton is?
Date: 07/11/20 08:29 Re: "Down in the Weeds" Author: SanJoaquinEngr tomstp Wrote: The GE units are all 4400 horsepower........ the SD70 is 4000... each car of grain is around 120 tons.. probably 100 plus cars.. add all of the horsepower together divided by the tonnage.. is your answer.. to figure the speed up Tehachapi or anyother grade// Horsepower per ton multiply by 12 and then divide this number by the percentage of grade will give you the speed up the mountain...
------------------------------------------------------- > Wonder what the HP per ton is? Date: 07/11/20 08:35 Re: "Down in the Weeds" Author: goneon66 as i remember when i caught those triple p's, the hpt was approx. 2.5. we would "march" up ash hill with no problems...........
66 Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/11/20 10:17 by goneon66. Date: 07/11/20 10:10 Re: "Down in the Weeds" Author: Milwaukee What date was this? I see the Citirail unit in the head end consist and someone was just commenting here on TO recently that those units were all thought to be stored.
This was a great train to catch. It would have been fun to listen/see it fight the hill from the perspective you had since you could see the entire train at once. Date: 07/12/20 09:46 Re: "Down in the Weeds" Author: spsniper This was shot in 2018! I think the Citirails have been returned since then!
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