Re: Calculating Motive Power Requirements
Bill
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My bad again -- I was quoting lbs-TE per ton not horsepower !! So a loco with 22,500 lbs continuous TE on a 2% grade could lift 500 tons, or about 10 "average" STMFC era freight cars. The SP for example would assign five 2-10-2's to lift 50 car trains north of Dunsmuir CA. A cab forward could take almost twice as much as a 2-10-2. An ABBA F set could lift about twice as much as one cab forward. On flat lands of course relative performance was very different than on steep mountain grades. Tim O'
At 8/14/2015 03:00 PM Friday, bill Vaughn wrote:
Rules of thumb --
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