"Freightliner to order 30 GE locomotives"

slipdigby · Post by **slipdigby** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:28 pm

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=551404

and

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/art ... 221633.htm

Oh well, I suppose it's a little more diversity on the railways

Slip

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:48 pm

More:

http://www.freightliner.co.uk/newsdetail.aspx?newsid=52

http://www.freightliner.co.uk/filelibra ... icture.pdf

Looks like it'll be designed along the lines of a 58.

chrisjackson · Post by **chrisjackson** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:58 pm

Well it will definitely be ugly anyway

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:53 pm

Given Freightliner have been pretty much kept out of the really heavy market thanks to not having anything up to the standards of a 59 or even 60, would they be used on existing traffic, like coal over the S&C or West Coast, or on traffic won from EWS? On another note, if EWS order some, would it the end for the 60s?

n863dwt · Post by **n863dwt** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:30 am

one of the major factors for the purchase of these new locomotives will be the fuel economy/emmisions AND how much weight it can haul...

an on the haugage aspct i know GM/EMD stated the class 66 design could be ordered with an AC traction fitted.. that would allow the 66 to haul longer, heavier trains without affecting speed etc... but i think the lack of practical use for it in the UK discouraged the usefullness over price.

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