Canadian Railroads > a few for on this day

November 8, 2008 a few images from the cab of BCOL 4618, south bound on the BC Rail Prince George subdivision.
images:
01 CDU, shows low pressure alarm, train length 9679, "0" pressure on the tailend, tailend is "stopped" and the marker light is on. We were doing some switching at the Pinnacle Pellet plant at Colebank siding.
02 air gauges
03 load meter /ammeter, they always showed a few amps even in idle.

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04 Desktop control stand, "back breaker"
05 view out the window at Colebank.
06 another view of the back breaker desk top

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last three images on the Quesnel River bridge at Quesnel BC.  This is the junction of the the Quesnel and Fraser River just to the right.
thanks for looking.   Doug

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Doug,
Always enjoy your pictures--just don't always have time to say so.  I see in pic #3 that when you get the amps
up to 1400-1500 you have very limited run time before things get exciting...

Keith Robertson
Langley, BC

Picture #3, not very likely to get into the red / minutes rating with these unit, computer protected to prevent overheating and damage to the electrical gear. Quite often on a heavy 2 percent grade the unit might peak out at 1200 amps. Also with the heavy load, Engineers had to consider  trailing units and their maximum amperage and minutes rating, particularly if they were older and lower horsepower generally meant lower high amperage rating. Also with high load amperage, had to be careful not to break a knuckle of pull a drawbar.