Reroutes from Germany in France I - Trainorders.com
Deutsche Bahn, DB, has been in the process of upgrading the corridor Mannheim - Bale for a number of years now. To the best of my knowledge they have missed the completion date a …
US Army Duty Train - Berlin - Trainorders.com
Ended up on Pan AM into Tegel and then an illegal [I found out later] ride on the U-BAHN line that skirted through East Berlin to get to Tempelhof. What a memory to dig up. Saw duty train …
Western Railroad Discussion > ES44AC vs. ES44DC - Trainorders.com
Most SD60s and I believe all Dash-8 6-motors were built with high-capacity DB grids, an exception being a small number of the first SD60s for Union Pacific (which still have the "old" …
D&RG on the MP trackage right question - Trainorders.com
Actually, there were 74 units in the 6000 series, noted for having dynamic brakes and other features for operation on the other railroads, at that time an 8 channel radio being one of them. …
Fastest acceleration? - Trainorders.com
The DB 152 must have a pulling force of at least 300 kN. I was in Austria recently an I was shown a 1016 engine inside and the driver put on a pulling force of 100 kN with the brakes on. The …
Western Railroad Discussion > MU Cables purpose
I'd like to also add on the MU Hoses that the outside one is the Independent hose which passes the engineer's signal to apply and release the brakes on the consist, the second is the Actuate …
Model Railroading > Replace / Upgrade A DCC System(?)
I bought a Digitrax Chief system in the late 1990's and always struggled with doing things like consisting. Last year I bought the TCS DCC system based on their new CS-105 command …
Why is "Power-Knock Down" a consideration, when Amtrak …
When a PTC penalty is invoked, PCS will open, either returning the units to idle or returning to idle and allowing DB operation if the railroad specifies their units to operate that way with PCS …
Air brakes: 24RL vs 26 L - Trainorders.com
Back then a lot of the GP9s,SD7s,9s,Fs and old U-Boats had the field loop system for DB and a separate cable. There were set up switches in each unit for lead or trail. They mis-matched …
Switzerland: Use of Lights? - Trainorders.com
DB removed the "Flaschfahrtsignal" Zg2 and Zg102 from the signal code book in March 1972. E111 ...