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The HEP alternator was located where the equipment blower would be on a 'conventional' C-C U-Series.

The MPI Blomberg truck has a 9" longer wheelbase in order to fit 'GE style' motors.

I notice the VP OPS came from the Mechanical Dept. Absurd !!!

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Owning a lease makes no sense. The lessor owns the leased property-the lessee leases the property. Are you speaking of a finance lease vs a short term lease ?

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Allan- your request has been noted.

Will-G E K-30150,First Edition,August, 1978 denotes the first Series-7 Running Maintenance Manual. I note that a deal of the GE materials that I have show no date.

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I'm reminded of the video interview of ... was it Hockaday? ... an ALCO design engineer who said that they just applied transistorized excitation to the RS-11 as a matter of continued product improvement and didn't think it was a huge deal; he only found out years later that marketing had decided t...

The fact that GE would essentially hide a major product improvement is rather strange.The need to bias loading against turbo speed was recognized back in the days of the Alco-GE joint agreement. It took some thirty years and the introduction of digital electronics to bring the concept to fruition. B...

Some digging into notes that I have taken along the way reveals the following: CHEC was applied to all the units in the order, per the schematic diagram for that order. I saw ex CR2798 when it ran on the P&W...noting the presence of CHEC equipment (without the annunciator module). Additionally, ...

CHEC was applied to at least some units in the last CR U-23B order circa 1977.

No mention of CHEC in the GE documentation.

Blending braking works off a electric signal piloted by brake pipe reduction. It has nothing to do with movement of the power throttle, except that the throttle has to be in 'IDLE.' In blended braking mode, independent brakes are cut-out, in order to prevent loco wheel lock up. AMTK (perhaps other) ...

I thought ATK answered the question quite well. Appears that he has some OEM experience with the locos.

Somebody's' head had to roll. BTW, wasn't Mr. Permut an 'up from the ranks' guy ? An original MN hire I believe ?

Mr. Gullietti sounds like a wonderful replacement, yet a manager is only as good as the folks below them.

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U30B and C-430 both had ALDAC (adhesion loss detection and control) wheelslip control-based upon measurement of axle speed via axle mounted AC generators. One would need to examine the schematics of the locos in question in order to verify differences in equipment, if any. In contrast, the C-425 use...

Commuter rr power tends to make repeated trips over the same line-which makes the management of urea less of a challenge vs. a Class 1.