| Posted by on January 1, 2018 | |
I new it was a GE locomotive without even looking at the specs. Back here in Wisconsin years ago we had a U25B in the lead on a westbound freight train that lit off going through the Rock River sag just east of Ixonia,WI.. As we went through town at 40mph with the throttle wide open and about 20ft of flame coming out of the stack the local fire department was called out and followed us alongside down HY16 to the eastside of Watertown where we stopped. As soon as I shut the throttle off the fire stopped and the Fire Chief was very disappointed the his boys didn't get to put it out......they sent a bill for $100 to the RR anyway that I got called out by management because they thought I called the FD......go figure. The FM locomotives had flame outs too but not as numerous as the GE's..
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hi tom
that's one weakness of GE locomotive that is no longer a productive locomotive
coupled with the behavior of engineers here who often run the engine throttle is not appropriate procedure in this case the engineers often raise the throttle from note 1 directly to notes 3 or 4 to create a combustion system like that
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