Can't compare electric locomotives with diesel ones tho.

@@edkode why ?

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Filmed trains in the dark are pretty boring. In person, they are a great deal more exciting. Big huge, dark shapes bulling past, buffeting you with the wind, shaking the ground, squealing and rattling, rushing by one after the next. You can't see the end of the train until you glimpse the red of the flasher glinting on the rails. The locomotives are big, ponderous, long shadows, rumbling away and hissing and popping, faintly lit up all along their length by running lights, except the big headlight peering down the rails like a shaft from a ponderous brow. The diesels shake the ground; that's how you can hear them miles out of town. They sit across the river in the dark, a line of lights along the track, idling like dangerous, powerful beasts, and the air vibrates in the dark when they open the throttles. Or you hear them miles away sounding their horn or making the grade in the silent night at 2AM; you don't hardly hear them at all in the daytime with traffic and whatnot drowning everything out. At night it's different.

Kel Harper I'm from southwest Virginia & i remember as a kid seems like no matter when I woke up in the middle of the night I would hear a train blowing it's horn in the distance.

They 'MU' locomotives together, so they will work in sync so to speak. While they all have different horsepowers, they'll still work together to pull a train just fine.

They are all computerized and connected together so when you open the throttle in one, it opens it the same in all of them. I imagine these days that you can even basically open the throttle of your 4,000hp diesel to 75%, or 3,000hp, and have the MU'd 5,000hp automatically open to 3,000hp as well. I'd guarantee that they wouldn't let a MU unit put out _more_ power than the controlling unit. Less perhaps. Because it doesn't really matter if one loco is working harder than the rest; it's like having 3 guys pushing a car up a hill. As long as all three are adding a net force to help push, they are adding to the acceleration of the car. It doesn't matter if one guy is a big, powerful man and one is mid sized, and one is a weak, slight man; it's the sum of their forces that is applied to the car. It's not as if there was some careful balance to make. You don't, however, want a man pushing so hard that his feet start sliding instead. So the ground is icy, and if you exert too much force, your feet tend to just loose traction and slide back; and say that when the small man puts his full force out, the large man automatically exerts his whole force as well. In that case, when the small man puts his whole 500lbs of force into pushing the car, the large man automatically also exerts his whole 1000lbs of force...and instantly overcomes the traction, and just starts slipping wildly. What you want is a limiter that allows the weaker man to push with 100% of his 500lbs, and the powerful with only 60% of his 1000lbs, to stay below the threshold of adhesion. A digital MU controller does this work for locomotives; I can't tell you just how it works, but it does work. Of course one CAN tell the more powerful loco to exert its whole force when needed. However, like i said, it doesn't matter if one loco is only exerting half the forward force of the others, unless it gets to the point where the others are actually dragging that locomotive ahead and it is unable to expert net forward force, it doesn't matter. It's still contributing to the driving of the train.

Typically yes; either that or moving storage locations.

MARTINE JOSEPH Vous avez vu la vidéo du train le plus long du monde ? 7km de long le bestiaux

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Allakazee1. They are going broke. HeadQuartered here.in Jacksonville Fl. Heard it on the news and.HOSTILITY on the job!

Might be the next one for CP to come along & gobble up .