Mookie maybe I missed It but it sounds like your from Nebraska. If you are what part? A town would be even better if you are.
They will tell you anything you want to hear. but the truth of the matter is when they send a single GE unit out on a triple crown ( or emd for that matter) the speed of the train is way down. the thing is like one big articulated car with so much drag they cant move it. at track speed. and these engines ( ge) do go down regularly.
…Wabash, are you saying the drag is more heavy and severe to move the Triple Crown cars [trailers], than conventional rail cars…? And if it brings down road speed so much when one engine is used why not two…or is it just the bean counters enterning into the equation. I have noted the Triple Crown runs coming through Muncie here with both configurations.
Towards the end of the article are three significant words, “if it works.”
I’m sure eventually it will work, but like most other things the rrds have embraced, it won’t do everything the salesman said. I think the rrds also know this, at least those with management who have been for the other “innovations” that work but, not quite as good as the salesman said.