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Posted by randyo on Tue Mar 27 17:55:01 2012, in response to Re: And the R-179 contract goes to...., posted by Train Dude on Tue Mar 27 17:28:26 2012. If SIR gets hand me downs, R-68s would probably make more sense than R-46s since the existence of transverse cabs at the #1 ends of all the R-68s makes it easier to re equip them for operation and possible reconfiguring them as 2 car married pairs or even converting some of them back as singles for odd numbered car consists. Some of them could even have the #2 corner cabs control equipment reinstalled so that they can be made into single units for the same purpose. AFAIK, the brake valves are still in the decommissioned cabs although they are capped, so all that would be necessary would be to reinstall the master controllers or depending on SIR administration mindset, install the cineston controllers that could be either removed from STR's R-44s or purchased brand new if they don't want to go to 2 handle operation. |
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