Re: (erielack) EL GP35's

["Ken" <"lackawanna_@_iname.com">]

Wasn't the bluish smog/haze due to the fact that the FM design was an
opposed-piston engine which, due to gravity, would drain lubricating oil
into the combustion chamber as piston rings and sleeves wore?  Add to that
the fact that it was a 2-cycle engine, with a power stroke on each cycle,
and that would explain the bluish haze.  Too bad the citizens of Los Angeles
don't want to substitute trains in place of cars to get rid of its haze!


Ken Bush
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From: Holbrook, Douglas W <"douglas.w.holbrook_@_lmco.com">
To: <"RAILDATA_@_aol.com">; Holbrook, Douglas W <douglas.w.holbrook@lmco.com>;
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 3:46 PM
Subject: RE: (erielack) EL GP35's


> If I recall correctly, the Train-monsters lasted only about 3 weeks as
> pushers out of Susquehanna .... When they idled, they gave off a
> distinctively blue smog-ish haze.  Coming down the road on the other side
of
> the river, this "blue cloud" hung over the depot and most of the village.
> The town fathers, not being extremely pleased with the new atmosphere,
> promptly got the FM's "run out of town".  Only managed to see them on one
> weekend.
>
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> To: "douglas.w.holbrook_@_lmco.com"; erielack@internexus.net
> Subject: Re: (erielack) EL GP35's
>
> In checking further, D&H employees time table says that in accordance with
> Pa
> PUC Order dated March 28,1966, employees cannot ride a in caboose if their
> is
> more than 3500 hp of locos pushing. They must ride in the pusher engines
if
> that hp is exceeded.  Also says that pusher engines cannot be cut off "on
> the
> fly" if behind occupied cabooses and pusher power is more than 3500 (which
> is
> sort of redunant since is says they cannot be there!)
>
> So I should revise my comment tor ead that if pushers are to be cut off on
> the fly behind the caboose they cannot exceed 3500 HP, which would
explaing
> Trainmasres,3 GP9's in pusher svce, etc.
>
> Erie had a neat arragnement at Gulf Summit where the the pushers backed
the
> caboose into a siding, then they got out of the way and the caboose was
then
>
> rolled down to the train...for when they ahd too much hp to push against
the
>
> caboose.
>
> Chuck Y
>
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