bcp Wrote:
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> rainbowroute Wrote:
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> > Can someone provide a technical explanation for
> > the "Alco sound"? They sound fundamentally
> > different than other turbo'd four stroke diesel
> > locomotives...kind of a reluctant chug?
> >
> > Sound very low revving with a lopey cam profile.
>
> > Or is exhaust scavenging and muffling
> different?
>
>
> Can't answer, but you brought back a memory.
>
> Early morning at Skagway shops, well before the
> first train out. There were 10-15 locomotives
> within 100 yards, all around me, all idling. A
> very memorable sound!
>
> Bruce
A yank Engineer once described(to me), to think of the ALCo engine as nothing more than a rotating bucket of bolts with the lid about to fly off.
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