EL crews called lashups like this Bozo lashups. The 7114's tractive effort was probably of no real use to 3652, the four axles for independent braking may have helped. As the Fs aged, their dynamics were erratic at best. Nice look back at when railroads were fighting for their lives and, for the most part, losing the fight (at least in the Northeast and Midwest).
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Yes, you might say the rail joints are low!
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SDP in name only--the SDP45s EL ordered came specifically steam generator-delete. EL simply wanted more fuel capacity for more range. SDP45 frames offered that.
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Erie-Lacka-Money
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Technically the EL SDP45s were referred to as SD45Ms by EMD....
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| Posted by on July 9, 2014 | |
This looks no different from selkirk yard
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I have read in more than source in a lash up like this the F7 could actually handicap the performance of the SD45. One case when they cleared the terminal the immediately took the F unit offline, and the performance improved noticeably.
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