{"id":455,"date":"2021-01-04T23:45:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T13:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2021-01-06T22:26:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T12:26:37","slug":"kato-test-track-speed-matching-batch-1-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/04\/kato-test-track-speed-matching-batch-1-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Kato Test Track \u2014 Speed Matching Batch #1 Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next I speed tested the two UP SW7 units #1800 &amp; #1824. Although They were the same loco as CBQ #9255 by the same manufacturer their speed were not quite the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CBQ #9255 was set as:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CV5 set to 130 giving a Top Speed of 80mph at speed step\u00a0126<\/li>\n<li>CV6\u00a0set to 60 giving a Speed of 41mph at speed step\u00a063<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>However UP #1800 had\u00a0 to be set as:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CV5 set to 140 giving a Top Speed of 81mph at speed step\u00a0126<\/li>\n<li>CV6\u00a0set to 65 giving a Speed of 41mph at speed step\u00a063<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>And UP #1824 was different again and was set as:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CV5 set to 141 giving a Top Speed of 81mph at speed step\u00a0126<\/li>\n<li>CV6\u00a0set to 65 giving a Speed of 41mph at speed step\u00a063<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-441\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/UP-1800-1824-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/UP-1800-1824-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/UP-1800-1824-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/UP-1800-1824.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0two UP SW7 units #1800 &amp; #1824 will become a consist and will be permanently joined together. However I will get into consisting at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Time to move onto Batch #2 &#8211; three Atlas EMD GP30s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next I speed tested the two UP SW7 units #1800 &amp; #1824. Although They were the same loco as CBQ #9255 by the same manufacturer their speed were not quite the same. CBQ #9255 was set as: CV5 set to 130 giving a Top Speed of 80mph at speed step\u00a0126 CV6\u00a0set to 60 giving a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dcc-testing","category-n-scale","category-speed-matching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}