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Originally Posted by Big Dave
A train usually coasts most of the distance of a leg. I ran a westbound train out of Washington, Indiana. Fifteen miles west, I topped the "ruling grade" at 30 MPH and coasted all the way to Cone Yard in East St. Louis where I had to get on the brakes. All the way across Illinois coasting. Is that a hypermiler's dream or what? I'd occasionally have to rev up the engines to compress air to keep the air brakes from dragging.
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So, except for recharging the compressed air, you were
EOC?
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e·co·mod·ding: the art of turning vehicles into what they should be
What matters is
where you're going, not
how fast.
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