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Eastern Railroad Discussion > Indiana and Ohio Railway's New Used PowerDate: 09/17/23 19:53 Indiana and Ohio Railway's New Used Power Author: tq-07fan I caught the G&W owned Indiana and Ohio Railway or I&O CSX Interchange Job returning from Queensgate this afternoon at NA Tower. NA Tower is where the former B&O Ohio Division and the former Big 4 split along with the connection for passenger trains coming off the Toledo Sub. Today it is I&O Midland Sub and the NS Dayton District. The plan is for IORY to repaint all these one by one.
Jim  Date: 09/17/23 20:37 Re: Indiana and Ohio Railway's New Used Power Author: irhoghead Your opinion may vary, but as a long time locomotive engineer, I would not be thrilled getting SD40-2s replaced with these things. Not any day of the week.
Date: 09/17/23 21:07 Re: Indiana and Ohio Railway's New Used Power Author: P Oh gee. Ugly orange painted in a different ugly orange.
Posted from Android Date: 09/17/23 23:45 Re: Indiana and Ohio Railway's New Used Power Author: pdt irhoghead Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Your opinion may vary, but as a long time > locomotive engineer, I would not be thrilled > getting SD40-2s replaced with these things. Not > any day of the week. Why? Cause when u open the throttle, you never know when its going to decide to respond. ? Date: 09/18/23 01:07 Re: Indiana and Ohio Railway's New Used Power Author: coach GE's seem better for full throttle, long-haul runs. Whenever I'm around them, and listen to them, they seem slow to throttle up. Older EMD SD-40's seem far more responsive, and given most shortlines do not do fast, hard running, GE's seem a poor choice. I thought there were lots of used SD-40's out there? Maybe their prices have gone up?
Date: 09/18/23 18:04 Re: Indiana and Ohio Railway's New Used Power Author: stlrailfan irhoghead Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Your opinion may vary, but as a long time > locomotive engineer, I would not be thrilled > getting SD40-2s replaced with these things. Not > any day of the week. 100% agreed also as a engineer I hate dash 9's Mark Date: 09/19/23 03:00 Re: Indiana and Ohio Railway's New Used Power Author: SALGUY irhoghead Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Your opinion may vary, but as a long time > locomotive engineer, I would not be thrilled > getting SD40-2s replaced with these things. Not > any day of the week. As a former NS engineer, I'll take these units over a SD40-2 anyday of the week, provided i dont have any set outs, or pickups to make. They are simply more comfortable. If youre going to be oit there, you may as well be comfortable. Date: 09/20/23 11:31 Re: Indiana and Ohio Railway's New Used Power Author: callum_out They have about 1 1/2 times the tractive effort of an SD40-2 on a similar amount of fuel, numbers matter on big trains.
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