4-ton locomotive reported missing from Omaha yard
According to the Omaha paper’s account of the incident, what is missing is an electric motor that had been removed from a freight engine for repair.
Don’t look at me! I want the whole thing, not just 4 tons of it!
I rushed right in to see if they actually had a 4 ton locomotive. Disappointed again!
I wonder what the penalties are for Grand Theft Locomotive…
And what type of locomotive is it? I never knew there was a 4-ton loco.
How about a hi-rail truck with couplers?
I’m wondering how somebody could even steal a traction motor without a crane or forklift and a heavy truck…not exactly like ol’ Bob could bring his friends along to help him lift it into his pickup truck!
“Dude, this thing is HEAVY!” [:P]
megh—one can lose the dang thing in that so called yard as well…
I suspect it could be a few people with a stolen truck with an attached forklift. I was surprised when I found out someone took a power transformer from a plant just outside of town here–cut the wires and moved it away----gone. All for the copper and scrap value----
Details! Details! Details!
Looks like another “journalist” has worked on a story really thoroughly, and has reported all the details correctly,
Sarcasm? You Bet!
Tis small wonder that the print newspaper media is going broke, all over the country.
We have discussed this more than once in these threads.
It sure is discouraging [2c]
It sure is discouraging!
But they are “knowing subjects” who are VERY professional[:-^][:-^][:-^]
How dare we plebes dump on these “Professional Journalists” so much-----waaaah boo hoo[(-D][swg][(-D][swg][(-D][(-D]
Sheeesh----did you have to come out with the sarcasm box?[(-D][(-D][(-D]
As long as these people who call themselves “journalists” do this type of thing there will be a lot of us not believing very much of what is written[|(]
Probably just copied from a police ‘blotter’ entry or report, rather than any real investigation, research, or reporting - and likely filed just to establish a basis for an insurance claim and reimbursement, etc.
What I really liked was one of the comments, by a ‘Big Poppa’ -
wait for it -
''Check with David Copperfield . . . ‘’
That’s 1 joke and 2 puns in 4 words, though you may have to be somewhat educated in either physics, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering to fully ‘get’ the 2nd pun . . .
- Paul North.
Somebody, somewhere along the line, must have thought that “traction motor” needed translation for the masses. Sad.
Paul, didn’t read the comments for myself, but your take on that one is spot on!
After seeing the trouble R.J. Corman’s tracked loader had with the traction motor from that CSX AC4400 this past weekend, I’d say you have to give the thieves credit for effort. They certainly knew what they were looking for.
Thing is, if it disappeared before Christmas, it’s all been “recycled” by now.
Has anyone checked e-bay?
And to think when they change them out in the field they leave them out for weeks at a time before they get picked up.
Jeff
It could be some foamer’s new coffee table. [:-,]
imagine hitting that with a shin in the dark!
I’d be more concerned with falling through the hole it left when it fell through the floor…
(1) oh, those cwazy Rail Sciences guys! Did one of those dim-bulb button pushing industrial engineers see in his 'puter that the shipping bill said delivery to Omaha estimated by Christmas? Was it ever actually in Omaha or is it sitting in the Jenks (Pine Bluff AR) locomotive shop wheel garden? Was it actually shipped? Did some trucker actually pick it up and read the manifest and instructions? (Sorry randy, switch7, EdBen and others - we’ve had issues here with what’s in the gene pools at some trucking companies here - like losing 8 foot dia. steel windmill hubs into wheat fields and not noticing the lighter load?)
(2) Get a good heavy duty semi-truck wrecker and rigging - that rascal is long gone. (even a flatbed wrecker and a good winch would work over a small distance)
(3) Sure the wheel truck and mechanical folks at Omaha weren’t told to fetch it? (Did UP’s elephant trackers have it moved as a lesson to Rail Sciences?)
(4) Did GE take it back as a proprietary secret and threaten UP/RS with industrial espionage? The plot thickens - Where’s Dan Harmon and KissyMyCinderFinder?!
(5) Did UP ship the thing to Omaha from Pine Bluff by way of California in one of its company material cars that some trainmaster/yardmaster buried in a jerkwater backtrack in order to move priority goods? (“lost” freight cars are occasionally a reality, why not a traction motor wheelset?)
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The question I have is what Model traction motor was it??
Do they have “models”? Does this mean one for an SD70 or an ACe? I guess they would be different sizes for different engines? Guess I never really thought about that…
Given that the space available is pretty consistent between locomotives, I’d guess the “form factor” is about the same across the board.
I know there are different models of traction motors (AC vs DC notwithstanding), but I don’t know what any of them are.
I’m no expert, but I think the main difference in the motor’s ability to handle more current and power.
Some EMD/ GM model designations are DC Traction Motors/Stators:
D29, D31, D43, D77E, D78, D87, D87B, D87BTR, D88, D90, D100 - from http://www.railproductsinternational.com/emd_traction_motors.asp . The numbers seem to increase with over time and power. See also GE’s webpage for upgrades of EMD motors at - http://www.getransportation.com/na/en/EMDtracmotor.html and http://www.getransportation.com/na/en/d31upgrade.html
GE motors are like 752 AF, AG, AH and E - from http://www.railproductsinternational.com/armatures.asp, and 746, etc. - but some of those are for big electric locomotives only !
Also as below, from - http://www.swigercoil.com/traction-motor-coils.asp
- EMD CA76 - EMD D14 - EMD |
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now I am really curious now. Can you give me/us more information as to why it would make a difference? Price? Size? Contents?