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Fritz Klinke

November 17, 2012 03:06AM

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This picture of a comparable train to the one the 346 is pulling shows what it took in motive power in 1911 to go up the 4% grades of Cumbres Pass.

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This is a lazy way to figure this out without going into tractive effort, weight of cars, loads, and all the technical stuff.

Fritz

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Subject	Author	Posted
346 on a 4% grade	weston1879	November 17, 2012 02:03AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	Fritz Klinke	November 17, 2012 03:06AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	South Park	November 17, 2012 05:03AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	Trevor Heath	November 17, 2012 05:57AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	Bob Meckley	November 17, 2012 06:52AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	Earl	November 17, 2012 10:36AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	C. Llamas	November 18, 2012 09:25PM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	Donald Foster	November 17, 2012 07:11AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	Jeff Taylor	November 17, 2012 10:52AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	rehunn	November 17, 2012 10:54AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	dthom8787	November 17, 2012 12:33PM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	rehunn	November 17, 2012 02:29PM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	Wayne Laepple	November 17, 2012 03:51PM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	CharlieMcCandless	November 17, 2012 04:45PM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	Chris Walker	November 17, 2012 05:03PM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	Bob Meckley	November 17, 2012 06:24PM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	James	November 19, 2012 02:02AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	South Park	November 19, 2012 08:12AM
Re: 346 on a 4% grade	HighCommander	November 19, 2012 09:24AM

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