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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jul 29 07:59:30 2007, in response to Re: Of brake stands and ''dramatic braking'', posted by BLE-NIMX on Sun Jul 29 07:32:05 2007. Yo! Howdy! And here I was thinking YOU were going to actually found a religion on them pesky artens. Blasphemy, fodder! (grin)Well ... a stuck float valve is what got ME tossed off the property. Dropping the controller did nothing either since somehow that line was "plugged up" too. :-\ Only thing that dumped the train that cost me my Empty-yay lifestyle was pulling the EBV by the electric panel. But by the time I got to it, not enough time to avoid ramming the layup on the ladder ahead of me. Accident, derailment. :( Dunno WHAT the problem was with those artens and their design. When the rails and wheels were DRY, those suckers GRABBED ... the dynamics on those bad boys were something to FEAR. Thought you'd never hit air by the way they brought those down in speed PRONTO! But they had a really nasty wheel lockup problem, which of course once the amps stopped, wheels rolled again and then they'd lock UP again. HIGHLY vibratory stops if you pulled hard. And then explain why you were dragging flats after the wheels melted down to the axles behind you. I *hated* artens but was fortunate enough to have avoided the A line. Only did those in schoolcar and ONE trip on a "goes to Coney for a repair, YOU take it.) Heh. The 32's had been on the road for over ten years and were pathetic in their dynamics. However, the FIRST thing I noticed about the 32's was that it appears as though the dynamics NEVER stopped when running. With arnines, one of my "religious observances" was grabbing a hot hero (usually Veal parm) at that joint a block east of Stillwell and just leaving it in foil on the floor in front of the cab heater to keep it nice and toasty. CPW was IMPORTANT to me because I could center up the reverser and coast on arnines. On the 32's and 42's (though it was a LOT worse on the 32's) the centering up didn't work (but you could still hang your bag for "hands free" - won't say any more) but those (*_$^#&%@! dynamics were "always on" and as soon as you went to coast, the train would start dragging as though you'd applied. :( And when you NEEDED braking on the 32's, they'd pussy out on you compared to arnines which COULD give you a "hard brake" as you missed your usual application position entering a station. And as long as that witch was still moving above 5 or so MPH, what you got HANDED by the dynamics was ALL you were going to get. And some of those bad boys were REALLY weak. :( People wondered WHY I *wanted* to run the "old wrecks." Heh. Bottom line though, "dramatic braking" ... I *LOVE* it! Moo. |
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