do a brake test as soon as you board the locomotive before you are coupled to a train, or just do a service application and then apply the...
some do, most don't. many blower engine have a stack straight out of the manifolds. some have silencers on the stacks, but they don't silence all...
not really air dryers, but air filters.. there is on most models a cartridge filter inside that will absorb some moisture, but it does not...
looks like a 2 cycle detroit diesel engine [black air box covers] 471 maybe?
fuel dilution. bad injector [body, rack, nozzle or needle valve leaking] or fuel jumper line cracked or leaking. you could run the engine quite...
there is a mechanical brake [w/electric release] on the electric motor that drives the screw gearset. it holds the motor, which through the gears...
i think the marker lights were needed for the DP [just like the 2200-2205 dash 9's] but the es44's are much nicer than the 70m-2's [although i...
the rco's at my yard seem to control slip well as long as all of them are not slipping [there has been some trouble recently on the hump with one...
that sounds about the same size as the jumpers we use between the loco and a slug.. with that, there are 7 connections i believe [1 standard 27pin...
CNI is the NYSE ticker i believe, CNR is the TSE ticker.. yeah, if only i had that many shares [i've got like $10k in shares of cn rail..]
for cn power, 5400's are sd50's, 5500's are sd60's 5200&5300's are sd40's, 5600-5626 are sd70 & 5627-5800 are sd75 2400's D8's, 2500-2727 D9's...
ah, power assembly work... my bread & butter. clean out all the junk, put new parts in, give the internals a quick inspection and fire it up...
i see it as a double edged sword... good for the share value and making the company overall run better, bad as more work will be shipped out of my...
get it done soon...! it was cold as heck last night on the service track.. good thing i didn't spend much time out there like the guys working the...
lack of service and maintenence is the cause. i know the track gangs now have to cover more track with less manpower.. same thing in the diesel...
the only one i have is CN sd75i 5766-5800 [2 or 3 copies]... i also have the engine rebuild manual for the 710 engines.. i am suppose to be...
looks like it use to be a gcfx/gec alstom leaser maybe? [paint doesn't match along the car body where the gec alstom logo use to be]
[img] yeah, some of the management at my place would be like that... last set of leads i connected was close to 6 months ago [they didn't have...
:D :D :D i'd enjoy seeing that too. i haven't had to do it myself though [dirt easy to do on the drop tables though]
if i would have had my camera with me yesterday, i could have snapped a pic of that WC unit with the traction motor sitting on the walkway while...
