Subject:
|
Re: No big Deal: B-Unit for 10020 Super Chief
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:22:41 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
497 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.trains, James Trobaugh writes:
>
> Looks good to me Ben. So basicly the B-unit cost twice as much as the
> A-unit?! Hmmmm, how are the B-units supposed to be a good deal for the
> railways :)
Um, they're not. It just took some stubborn railways a while to learn that.
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: No big Deal: B-Unit for 10020 Super Chief
|
| (...) Union rules. Back when, anything with a number was a loco. Since a B unit had no number, it was not a loco, hence not needing a crew... That's why you see 300F, 300A, 300 B, 300C for example on a ABBA arrangement of F units (IIRC, that was (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
|
Message is in Reply To:
9 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
