Re: (erielack) Doubleheaded Locomotives

["vze3fhdr" <vze3fhdr_@_verizon.net>]

Hi all:

    When you see an NJT passenger train with more than one locomotive, it 
means that:

    1. the second loco is being ferried somewhere; Hoboken, some outlying 
terminal, the MMC.....

    2. the second loco just came out of the shop, having been through a 
major repair of some sort, and is going through a reliability test, 
sometimes lasting for a week or more.

    Bill
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RWisneski_@_njtransit.com>
To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:05 AM
Subject: (erielack) Doubleheaded Locomotives


> Please allow a brief clarification to some modern era misinformation that 
> was on this list recently.
>
> Ed Montgomery wrote about seeing an NJT train with two diesel locomotives. 
> Someone replied claiming that this was a new practice on NJT perhaps due 
> to heavier coaches or longer trains.
>
> Ed then replied:
>
> The MU-ing of NJT engines on the Greenwood Lake grades makes sense.  (I 
> say Greenwood Lake because that's not the real Boonton Line.).
>
> My brief response:
>
> NJT trains are not programmed to run with two locomotives.  I can't speak 
> to the specific train Ed saw; perhaps the original locomotive had a 
> problem, or the second locomotive was added as a means of shuttling it 
> from Hoboken or the Meadows Maintenance Complex out to Port Morris yard to 
> swap out for a failed locomotive, or one due for a  Periodic Inspection.
>
> For a time there was one 12-car Multilevel trainset running on the 
> Northeast Corridor with two ALP 46 electric locomotives but that consist 
> has since been broken up.
>
> Now back to the past....
>
> Rich Wisneski
> Denville, NJ
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