by Triaxle
ApproachMedium wrote:I think they are smart enough to know the beating they are receiving and they are begging for mercy.This may be a groan-inducing question, but how can running on rails constitute a 'beating'? They are industrial equipment, designed to run at rated loads all day, every day until some service interval, right? It's not like you can take them off-roading, over-rev the engines or hook up a trailer which the transmission wasn't designed to handle. Heat and cold are known conditions, we're hardly the world's worst (check out the video of a gas pump hose freezing in Siberia). Regarding heat, Libya is known to top 125 degrees. Obviously I have no direct experience with railroading, but from my limited knowledge of industrial equipment is that it's rated for a duty cycle ranging from occasional use to 24/7.