Kevin Stevens
January 28th, 2001, 11:15 PM
Thought I would fill you all in on some information I received this weekend:
Distributed Power, or DPU operations (unmanned run-through helper units) have recently been extended on Roseville/West Colton Manifest trains. DPU was originally run between Bakersfield and West Colton, but will now run all the way between Roseville and West Colton.
As a side note, the power on DPU trains is going through a change. The original DPU trains on this corridor were handled by a group of C40-8W's equipped for this service. Currently, UP is moving in 8500 class SD90MAC's for this service to replace the C40-8W's. The displaced Dash-8's are to be moved to other DPU operations in the Pacific Northwest corridor. The plan for the RV/WC DPU trains is to have 2 SD90's on the point and one SD90 trailing. Of course this is not a set rule, as they can always add other available units to the power set.
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Kevin Stevens
www.trainweb.org/KernJunction (http://www.trainweb.org/KernJunction)
Distributed Power, or DPU operations (unmanned run-through helper units) have recently been extended on Roseville/West Colton Manifest trains. DPU was originally run between Bakersfield and West Colton, but will now run all the way between Roseville and West Colton.
As a side note, the power on DPU trains is going through a change. The original DPU trains on this corridor were handled by a group of C40-8W's equipped for this service. Currently, UP is moving in 8500 class SD90MAC's for this service to replace the C40-8W's. The displaced Dash-8's are to be moved to other DPU operations in the Pacific Northwest corridor. The plan for the RV/WC DPU trains is to have 2 SD90's on the point and one SD90 trailing. Of course this is not a set rule, as they can always add other available units to the power set.
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Kevin Stevens
www.trainweb.org/KernJunction (http://www.trainweb.org/KernJunction)