Passenger Trains > Metrolink MP-54??

http://metrolink.granicus.com/DocumentViewer.php?file=metrolink_8c43f70261ccd75fcdfb96c535c95bde.pdf&view=1


I just saw this on Metrolink's site.
Metrolink/SCRRA-Los Angeles.

On page 16 of the third set of agendas.

There is a mention of a MP-54 Locomotive. That has 5400 horses.

I don't ever recall seeing an MP-54.

Has anyone on here ever seen this unit model?

I didn't think there was anyone making a locomotive that had that much HP.
the last locomotives I recall that had 5000 HP or more in recent years. Was
the SD 80MAC, SD 90, and the GE C60CTE (I think).

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

Wonder if NS has a patent on that designation ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRR_MP54



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/13 11:52 by joemvcnj.

It looks like that was MPIs proposed model in response to Metrolink's RFP which EMD won. They're just comparing the benefits of the two models.

And to fans of the Pennsylvania RR, MP-54 means one of the "owl-faced" electric suburban cars that went into service about 100 years ago.

As i have ridden an PRR MP-54, I was going to say that, but you beat me!!...

"page 16 of the third set of agendas" isn't much help and I don't have time to wade through 105 pages of management gobbledygook! Can you help us with the .pdf page number?

Barry Draper

barrydraper Wrote:
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> "page 16 of the third set of agendas" isn't much
> help and I don't have time to wade through 105
> pages of management gobbledygook! Can you help us
> with the .pdf page number?
>
> Barry Draper


Page 24 is where I found it.

Prime-Mover?

http://www.cat.com/C175-20

Hmmm....

GCrY
MP6.7

That would be the prime mover for the EMD model which Metrolink awarded the contract for.

The proposed MPI model, the MP54 would have had two 2600 horsepower 10-cylinder prime movers (a GenSet). The benefit of this would have been a "Limp Home" mode if one if the gensets failed.