New equipment at the Pikes Peak Cog Railroad!
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2024
- New locomotive and snowplow arriving at the Pikes Peak Cog Railway, being hoisted off the trailers and set on the tracks.
Filmed March 26th 2021
Lift begins on locomotive 1:00
First time the locomotive moves 12:58
Snowplow being hoisted 16:30
Locomotive hooks to the Snowplow 28:15
Snowplow is pushed into the shop 30:18
Pikes Peak Cog Railway delivery
Oh nice, same whistle as it is used by RhB in Switzerland.
Awesome, I'm really looking forward to visiting again.
I find it unusual that they ordered locomotives to push three cars. I figured they would order 4-car DMUs which each car having a diesel engine. The addition of the air whistle is also unusual.
Stadler knows best when it comes to cog rail locomotives, and this is what they came up with. The air whistle is very common for their usual clients, but it is unusual here in the states. A welcome addition though
Stadler DMUs tend to have the Diesel engine in a separate short car, often called a "power pack", typically with a path through the middle accessible to passengers. I'm guessing that this is to reduce noise and vibrations in the passenger cars. It is probably for this same reason that Stadler just went with a locomotive-based design instead here.
They put air whistles on the new locomotives?
Indeed they did! It was a welcome addition
Make sure you don’t drink too much water before you get on!