(erielack) Re: EL List Daily V3 #1957

["Bill K." <pontiac_@_dreamscape.com>]

The Northeast RR Pictorial book series shows SP pool units at Sayre that
must have come through the N&W, and both appear to be SD40's.

(even stranger, I have slides of a UP pool caboose at Sayre being switched
by a LV SW8).


As a rule they tried to keep big units off the west end because the track
was poor and the C628s would as likely end up on the ground as get through,
towards the end.  EMDs with the equal axle spacing may have handled the
track better.



Bill K.



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> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:45:13 -0500
> From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
> Subject: (erielack) Motive Power Distribution
>
> Restricting the GP40's to Trailvan service was not necessarily smart power
> management on CR's part. If the trains were reasonably on time there was
an
> approx 16 hour layover at each end, which is a long time for your best
power
> to be cooling it's wheels. Englewood-Beacon Park is actually closer to 980
> miles, comparable to EL's NY-Chicago distance. When the 3600's were new,
EL
> claimed to be getting 18,000 miles/month out of them, and it did this with
> faster turnarounds at each end. So NY-99's power often went back out on
> NE-74, and NY-100's on CS-9. This permitted an additional NY-Chicago trip
> every week.
>
> I'm a bit surprised about his comment on balancing power with N&W; almost
> all the photos of N&W units on LV I've seen show nothing bigger than a
GP35.
>
> Paul B
>
> For a short period in the mid 70s we ran power
> through with the N&W between Bellevue, OH and Oak Island. We had to stop
> this because power was "balanced" based on HP*HR and the N&W just
> overwhelmed us with their higher HP locomotives and we built up a deficit
> that we just could not repay.
>
> Also, when things ran on time, (when we weren't cleaning up a wreck
> somewhere) certain power would turn for certain trains. One that I happen
to
> remember was that SJ-4's power would turn for AP-1 at Oak Island. Since we
> had only 8 road trains that ran the whole system, our road power would lay
> around more than one would like at the outer terminals like Oak Island,
> Buffalo and NF. In spite of that, we were able to get 10,500 to 11,500
miles
> per month out of our newer units. After Conrail took over, Joe Dryberg
> (Manager of the Blue Room in Philadelphia) told me that these mileages
were
> pretty good and were beating the mileages that the PC was getting out of
> their GP-40s which ran in dedicated Trailvan Service between Beacon Park
and
> Chicago. (900 miles with some 70 MPH territory). The LVRR was  about 500
> miles with a maximum of 60 MPH for the Apollos (Not between Lehighton and
> Coxton).
>
>
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