🚀 go-pugleaf

david parsons <orc@pell.portland.or.us> wrote in message
news:8rlt01$9bf@pell.pell.portland.or.us...
> In article <39DD4E82.BFA16DFB@bigvalley.net>,
> Pierre A Plauzoles  <sphinxangelorum@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >Hello.
>
> > [For electifying SF-San Jose (or Gilroy?)]
> >Now to the nitty-gritty: Have a;ll the Mexican E60Cs been sold (they
> >were returned to the US, apparently, last year; there were 20 left
> >unsold in August of last year)?  The way I hear it, there were six
> >wrecked for various reasons -- it appears (although I don't have any of
> >the details) that none of the accidents were due to on-board mechanical
> >problems.  Would the idea of using some (or all) of those units for the
> >time being -- while the system absorbs some of the
> >electrification-related costs -- not have some advantages?
>
>    I suspect that would depend on just how well suited E60s are for
>    start-stop service.  NJ Transit used them for commuter service for a
>    while, but apparently had a devil of a time getting them to work
>    properly in push-pull (and ended up hot-potato(e)ing them as soon as
>    they could buy ALP44s), so I suspect that they aren't suited.

At least the JPB is consistent. They continue to make the worst possible
choice whenever they can. Do you think this is planed, or are they just
plain stupid?

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>     david parsons \bi/ GE seems to have completely lost the ability to
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