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That looks like the same load at the sammich stop, just spread out on two trucks cause they were using Pete's, should a brought a Mack to haul that load!

Remember I said there was more to it,air brakes on trains aren't like truck brakes, there's no spring brake and only 1 air line thru the train. Train brakes work by pressurizing the "train line" to 90psi, once the train is aired up every cars reservoir and the train line are equal at 90psi. Okay so when an engineer applies the brakes he is reducing the train line pressure, he would make a 10psi set, reducing the train line by 10psi to 80psi. At that point the "triple valve" on each car releases air from the reservoir on the car to the brake chamber pulling rods and the brake shoes against the wheels. The more air is released from he train line the harder the brakes set on the cars......however! The brakes set from the front to the back as the train line pressure drops, not all at once it can take about a minute for all the brakes to come on, therefore adding to the stopping distance. Also once you release air from the train line there is no compressor on the cars to recharge it, you have to charge the train line by releasing the brakes to fill the tanks, so if you make a bunch of brake adjustments, or "sets" and then throw the train brake into emergency dumping the train line there may not be a lot of air to set the brakes very hard anyway. And now you know "some" of the rest of the story!

Yep, but I can't get pics on here right now, which one are you curious about?

Just make sure its capped off right and rock on, your not the first to o it and won't be the last.

Nothing does Mike, nothing does.

Just go get him and head to the wood yard O.D.

They can't look it up with the Vin number? Interesting, call Winrock truck parts in oliver springs Tn and they'll ship em to ya.

Train braking is terrain and condition Dependant, a decent rule of thumb is a 100car train on level track takes 1 mile from 50mph, if its down hill or wet or cold double the distance. The changes don't end there, most mixed consist trains average half loads half empties, coal, grain and tank trains are most always all loaded or all empty so again double the stopping distance. If there was a curve or building back up the track restricting vision of the truck the brakes may not have been activated till a couple hundred feet before the truck.

Winrock truck Parts in oliver springs Tn, or global truck in md

Looks great, the red makes it look like it has the old r style body lines.

Get us some more pics so we can see the paint job it looks interesting.

You can't out flow a 5" intermediate pipe with that engine, stock is 4" from the turbo to the muffler on all older 6 cylinder Mack's up to the ASET engines. The etech and aset had a 5" outlet muffler but still the 4" intermediate pipe (turbo to muffler) I have a 5" downpipe, y pipe and everything under the cab then to 6" elbows and stacks on my turned up E9 and I never have exhaust temp issues. I have seen several high performance E7 or etech engines that have been swapped to 5" downpipes back to the stacks and none had heat issues but none made anymore power with it either. I'd say do whatever you want its your truck but trying to do 6" under the truck will be a pain and not give you any gains on that engine at all. If you swap to a Borg warner turbo from Antrim you can go up to the 5" downpipe that bolts right on and go from there.

I'd love to do that, I think I'd have to slide the battery boxes and tanks forward so they looked like the superliners though. Anybody got a V8 powered CL613 for cheap?

find a friend with a trailer they aren't using much, like a storage trailer and hook the superliner to it and haul ass man.

Hell get a pn and buy em from mack, they had mine in the system.

Sweet

Everybody likes an old dog and old dogs love to embarrass new Pete's on the road, looks good.

The AD-IP is a good dryer, but its just as cheap to buy a new one as to rebuild it with a cartridge and purge valve kit. As for the heater like above if its a part time use antique truck and you keep the water out of the system and dont use it much below freezing its no big deal, also the heater is really only needed for about 20-30 minutes after startup. Once the engine and compressor are at operating temp the air going thru the dryer is over 100degrees therefore hot enough to not freeze up. I actually dont have one on the superliner, I have an AD9 in the garage for it but I use it so little it just hasnt bothered me yet, I still drain my air tanks every time I drive it and do with trucks with air dryers also so its not a big deal for me.

AD-9 is a bulletproof dryer, the rebuild is straight forward and consist of some o-rings, a spring and the actual purge valve center section, comes apart and back together in about 20 minutes. the dessicant cartridge can be a pain to get broke loose, I use a big filter wrench or chain wrench but once broken loose it screws right off and back on. Itll be about $40 for the rebuild and $60 for the cartridge, never do just one do both at the same time once a year or every 100,000 miles.

Camelback is still available, got a friend with 4 new Granites, the first had M-Ride like all the other stock units but they couldnt keep em together and they were killing tires so they went back to Camelback, its one of the few real Mack components left.

Chains, with two crossed over the front edges of the mats if it were me, coincidentally I have a friend that is working a deal to start building those and im in the loop for the haul within 500mi or the rail load out. paul, I never could get the hang of ropes, just couldnt keep em tight for some reason, and I keep a couple lever binders on the trailer but much prefer the ratchet type. I think lever type binders work ok on anything with some give like rubber tires but anything solid or on tracks i go all ratchet binders.

Its one bad ass dog is which one it is, they look sweet together, you should buy killer and have two!

I WANT ONE!

The late 80's early 90's were weird times with Mack, seems you could order trucks with the same spec 3 months apart and get something different at delivery. I'm sure Mack would say it was constant improvement to their product but it makes parts hunting annoying. I've seen lots of 8 lug trucks, most were bulk haul trucks around here, fuel tankers, bulk tankers, freight trucks,etc. Seems they were touted for more strength, quicker changes and lighter weight but never caught on market wide.

Hate to break it to ya but they arent all new, we (CSX) just replaced part (not all) of the original signal system from the 1940's and 50's from the Chattanooga Subdivision. It would never have been replaced but it wouldnt work with govt mandated PTC so one section at a time its getting swapped out, but its still just a track shunt to start the grade crossing system , its more intuitive but you can still fool it with wire and a resistor.