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To: smokingfrog

Real question: does this particular RR have overhead power for locomotives equipped with pantographs? Catenary effect refers to wire dip between the towers IIRC.

Takes me back to the old PRR electric locomotive, the GG-1.

56 posted on 05/14/2015 6:49:45 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")

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To: elcid1970

Yep, overhead power.

67 posted on 05/14/2015 6:58:21 PM PDT by Paladin2

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To: elcid1970

Yes. It’s an electric train.

http://history.amtrak.com/archives/testing-the-acs-64-locomotive-no.-601-2013

70 posted on 05/14/2015 7:00:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)

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