Yes, they were NPZH hoppers with blue tarps. I'm told the tarps are
to stop the rain getting in which would add to the preset weight. Also
there were a few hoppers without tarps. I guess they want to test all different
weights.
Bob
"Melanie J. Dennis" wrote:
Aus loco discussion mailing listBob: Are the coal hoppers NPZH wagons with blues tarps? If so, a rake of them were resident in a siding at the Port Kembla Coal & Wheat unloading balloon loops on 30/12/1999. May have been used for testing the facilities there also but we didn't see the sleeper wagons.
Melanie Dennis
Australian Steam Group
meld.asg@netspeed.com.au-----Original Message-----
From: Bob [SMTP:alco@acay.com.au]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 10:34 PM
To: Ausloco
Subject: Weighbridge test trainAus loco discussion mailing list
During the last 3 days the Weigh bridge test train has been running push - pull between Sandgate
and Maitland testing the new weigh bridges. Tests are performed at high speeds and the train has
8253 + 8220 on one end and 8224 on the Maitland end. The train consists of a large number of
sleeper wagons loaded and some coal hoppers covered with tarpaulins.
Cheers
Bob______________________________________________________________________
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