Kelly Anderson posted:Hot Water posted:Kelly Anderson posted:I got that direct from a person in the cab at the time as well, a malfunction on the diesel that was found recorded on its computer screens once they got into its cab.
Sorry, but that was a smoke screen from the current manager. The diesel MU control box was checked, rechecked, and subsequently its integrity verified by the EMD Electrical Control Section of the Engineering Dept. (where it was designed and built for American Freedom Train #4449 in 1975/1976).
I didn't say that there was any issue with the MU control box. What I was told was that the diesel locomotive itself had a malfunction.
Still not true, just another smoke screen.
I was told that its internal computerized record recorded that the inputs from the MU control box to throttle back and so on were received, but it continued to put out tractive effort just the same.
Again, false information, as I was informed by the UP Mechanical Dept. people that checked the computer on the MU'ed diesel unit, it verified that it responded to EXACTLY what it was told to do from the can of 844.
However, I wasn't there. I don't believe that anyone else here was that day either.
I did talk to more than one witness, however.
