Number 90 posted:Back to the topic:
I guess everyone is now convinced that EMD E-series passenger locomotives contain two diesel-electric power plants, each of which provides electric current to both traction motors of one truck only? Good. Then, let's look at how this worked in pre-Amtrak passenger service.
Most mainline passenger trains pulled by E-units had two -- sometimes three -- units. Union Pacific used up to six units, and SP and Burlington used up to four, at the end of their respective passenger service, because they combined trains on some routes. but two or three was normal elsewhere...
And indeed, Dad took this pic during on one of our (purposeful) layovers in Green River, Wy (c. '61-'65):
Even in those days a lot of horses on the hoof!
