Trains on the Pokey today

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Wow!  I had no idea that they were achieving adhesion ratios in the  
mid 40s these days!

pete groom

On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:20 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> > what is the CTE software?

> > Nathan Simmons

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> Controlled Tractive Effort... reduces the TE curve from 145,000pds  

> to 110,000pds when the unit is below 11mph.  Normally used in DPU  

> operation on manifests on other roads... however, it would make  

> sense for it to be enabled even when manned, given that these units  

> are max axle load units (432,000lbs) and have the high-adhesion  

> software set to 36,000/200,000 (36,000lbs max TE per motor,  

> 200,000pds max TE for the unit)

>

> Robb Fisher

> RFDI

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