Off to Bulgaria, locos at least.
Not that I know of yet but sure it'll appear soon.Is there a source for this?
It has been said before on this thread, there is no use for a high-geared racehorse that was designed to race up the ECML with no other intentions. There is no market for these kind of locomotives in Eastern Europe (If anybody can prove me otherwise then fire away!) Also they're incredibly knackered, so I doubt they would get far in Mainland Europe.Not that I know of yet but sure it'll appear soon.
It has been said before on this thread, there is no use for a high-geared racehorse that was designed to race up the ECML with no other intentions. There is no market for these kind of locomotives in Eastern Europe (If anybody can prove me otherwise then fire away!) Also they're incredibly knackered, so I doubt they would get far in Mainland Europe.
Is there a source for this?
Why on earth would Bulgaria want or need a loco like a 91?
Are you sure that's *just* the Bulgarians? That said, they have recently opened a stretch of faster route between Septemvri and Pazardzhik - 160km/h (100mph), which is pretty fast for Bulgarian standards. Currently there are no locomotives in Bulgaria capable of such speeds (excepting the ex-UK 86s and 87s)...They took 47s and 87s so why wouldn't they take 91s as well? there'll be no answer of course unless Europhoenix can convince the Bulgarians that they actually do want/need them
Colour me surprised! Never thought Europhoenix would take a 91. Might it be re-geared?
The 91s are higher geared, which is why slower 90s can keep time on ECML stopping duties. I would not personally use a racehorse to do cart horse work.Just as a thought, I'm a master at knowing nothing about the technical side of things, if we put a 91 against a 90 as a passenger loco then the 91 is obviously in the lead but a 90 is perfectly capable, what though if we were to compare the two as freight locos? how would a 91 perform given a couple of thousand tons to haul? if you needed an available electric loco for freight would a 91 be worth the effort?
Photo has appeared on the 91 group on facebook of 91120 in Europhoenix livery.
Thank goodness we still have some companies in this country that are prepared to 'think outside the box', if you have assets that are at the end of their life for the purpose they were built then why not improvise? as a country we need to do it more instead of leaving things to sit idle rotting away
which facebook group are the pictures in please?
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