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Re: Re:Re: Re:Re: (erielack) EMD's - ALCO's

And, from what I've read, manual transition was a disaster in terms of broken couplers.  That's why it went away.----- Original Message -----From: Janet & Randy Brown Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:24 pmSubject: Re:Re: Re:Re: (erielack) EMD's - ALCO'sTo: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org> Yes -- but transition is transition.  The locomotive didn't know > whether it was manual or automatic; it just knew that it felt > better and ran faster with it.> > Randy Brown> --------------------------------------------------------------> The FT had manual transition only, didn't it? ----- Original > Message -----From: Janet & Randy Brown Date: Friday, March 30, > 2007 9:08 amSubject: Re:Re: (erielack) EMD's - ALCO'sTo: > erielack@lists.elhts.org> FTs had transition.> > Randy Brown> ---> -----------------------------------------------------------> > > > > The Alcos could pull more freight on less fuel and ran > > > reliably until the cranks went. I believe that they also had > > transition. > > > Don't know enough to discuss transition, > however. :)> >       - > > 	The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List> 	Sponsored by the ELH&TS> 	http://www.elhts.org> 	To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html>


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