06-17-2009, 07:40 PM
Charlie B Wrote:And it won't be too long before the trains will be operated by the dispatchers strictly by remote control, no crews at all. My now retired FRA man was telling me it wasn't far away. There was a mine railroad in Ohio in the 70's that did this, so it isn't impossible. I just wonder how many amps the DCC booster pack will require.
Charlie
That would be the Muskingdum Electric Railway..The MER shuttle coal between a strip mine and a American Electric Power power plant near Zanesville.AEP own the MER.
MER cease operations in 2002 when the mine ran out of economically recoverable coal according to my "short line "notes...
Larry
Engineman
Summerset Ry
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Engineman
Summerset Ry
Make Safety your first thought, Not your last! Safety First!