[Date Prev][Date Next] [Chronological] [Thread] [Top]

Re: (erielack) Lackawanna Articulateds

True, but didn't NYC, a high speed road if ever there was one, have
2-6-6-2's?? I think they may have used them in hump service at
Dewitt(Syracuse), but they surely couldn't have spent their entire service
lives there.

I think(this coming from a child of the diesel age) that the speed
capability would bear some relation to the driver diameter. UP certainly
runs its 3985 at fast enough speed to pull passenger trains on a high speed
freight main, and did it during regular service steam. I've seen NW 1218 run
pretty fast too-in excess of 50 MPH. Perhaps such an engine might not have
run as fast as a Pocono, but with the proper sized drivers, it should have
been able to maintain enough speed to get over the road without bogging down
the rest of the railroad.

Tom B


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
To: <RJFlei_@_aol.com>; <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:26 AM
Subject: RE: (erielack) Lackawanna Articulateds


> Rick,
>
> Aren't most articulated NOT known for their great speed? The DL&W prided
itself on its fast service, and I think an articulated would not have served
that purpose?
>
> - Paul
>

------------------------------