Re: Botany and Cooks River 29/3

["Darrell Gainey" <darrellgainey@hotmail.com>]

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Ivar,

When F.A. train number 9261 (empty logs) runs to Hume on consecutive trips, 
EL51 alternates from nose southwards to nose northwards.

The EL always leads the empties from Queanbeyan to Hume no matter how it is 
facing.

One would think that they would take advantage of the 'double cab' G543 to 
lead the empties if the EL was wrong way round.

This would then leave the EL right way round to haul the loaded wagons back 
to Queanbeyan.

If the drivers aren't concerned about hauling a train 10 kilometres, I guess 
running light engine backwards is fairly trivial!

Bye,
>From on the south DARRY!
(Sorry, Danny!)

>From: "kak 015" <kak015@hotmail.com>
>
>>Do ELs have hostler controls on #2 end? Or do they use 1873 to lead from
>>Cooks River when running to "turning" location? Otherwise it would be
>>pretty awkward for the crew running an EL blunt end first!
>Regards
>Ivar
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