UPP 403

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Rick Ritchie	General	Okay, cool pic... but what the heck is it?	2/4/2006 7:34:47 PM

Vianney Roge	General	Or maybe a GP40XXX!!!!!	2/5/2006 8:00:57 AM

Rick Ritchie	General	Well it may be the butt end of a SD45, but it is mounted on a flatcar and has no powered trucks. I see no power cables on the visible end, so it's not a power unit. Maybe a training unit?	2/5/2006 11:29:13 AM

Tom Stolte	General	from Doug Stark: I believe it's a "load bank" used for stationary testing of locomotives under simulated full load conditions. Electricity from the diesel's generator, instead of going to the traction motors, is converted to thermal energy and dissipated through resistive elements located below the cooling fans. Essentially it's a giant "toaster", and I've heard that term used to describe load banks used for routine testing of emergency standby generators located in buildings.	2/5/2006 3:38:17 PM

Rick Ritchie	General	Ahh, that would explain all those heat blisters wouldn't it? Thanx!	2/12/2006 11:24:17 AM

Zach Pumphery	General	Tom is correct, this is just a load test unit.	4/28/2009 10:59:36 PM

UPP 403
Date: 2/4/2006	Location: Council Bluffs, IA Map	Views: 2780	Collection Of: Tom Stolte
Rolling Stock: UPP 403 (Flat Car)			Author: Tom Stolte

Picture Categories: RollingStock		This picture is part of album: Today in Council Buff's IA - 02/04/2006

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