Apropå vackra amerikanska lok
(Tomas Stanislawski | 2001-12-31 18:27)
Det finns de som säger att de amerikanska järnvägsbolagen har fått lägga ut en himla massa pengar på att ersätta de enligt i mångas ögon vackra F-loken i förtid med GP-typen av lok eftersom F-loken helt enkelt var opraktiska för godstrafik.Om man ser på F- resp. GP-typ av lok så har GP-typen rullat betydligt längre, F-loken har skrotats ut i efterhand nya lok har kommit men GP-loken renoverar man och använder igen.
mvh Tomas
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So how about: WORST EMD locomotive
design in terms of its effects on the
railroad industry as a whole? I
nominate, on that score, the FT. It
started the railroads down the dead-end
path of using streamlined carbody units
on FREIGHT. Had the FT been offered in
something more like the GP-7's carbody,
there would never have been a freight
covered wagon: the railroads wouldn't
have demanded one, and the other
locomotive builders, seeing a market
only for roadswitcher type units for
freight, would not have bothered
designing FA and Sharknose and C-line
types. My guess is that the American
railroad network as a whole would have
saved several hundred million dollars by
the time dieselization was complete.
(And the Santa Fe wouldn't have had to
cook up the CF-7!)