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Re: NJT Board considering large capital expenditure on new rolling stock, including DMs & EMUs, July 9th |
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Posted by Dutchrailnut on Sat Jul 5 19:27:46 2008, in response to Re: NJT Board considering large capital expenditure on new rolling stock, including DMs & EMUs, July 9th, posted by trainsarefun on Sat Jul 5 18:43:25 2008. A locomotive would never work on third rail, first in push mode the engineer has to guess for where gaps are and sppeds over 60 mph give such a creature a big chance of burning up (flash overs)Old electric locomotives like DD-1 were long , had no HEP or complex high horsepower stuff running while going trough gaps in third rail and were always in lead, so engineer could see the gaps. Even a off the shelf ALP-46 would need to be heavely modified with lots of weight added to be able to work of Third rail. Like a step up inverter for third rail, shoe beams, circuit breakers for DC power etc. |
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