Re: EE Locos and other things

["ben scaro" <bscaro@hotmail.com>]

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Hello all

Regarding the narrow gauging of 500s- there was the suggestion during AN 
days that a 500 could be modified to operate on the lightly trafficked 
Peterborough-Orrooroo and Gladstone-Wilmington lines.This was reported in 
Catchpoint or the Recorder.  As far as I know, this did not occur, or if it 
did it went unreported. It does seem unlikely though.

There was a photo published in the Recorder in 1980-81 of an NT on a set of 
4 axle (500 ?) trucks on Gladstone turntable.  Pretty sure it wasn't 
operating on them- it was probably being moved around while its trucks were 
worked on- or maybe the 4 axle trucks were used to tow the unit between 
Gladstone and Peterborough.

TGR Xs and Ys didn't operate that well together, apparently the XA 
modification was to improve their MU performance with Ys.

I wonder if the Tranzrail 'Arataki' system might be of interest to Tasrail, 
which is still heavily reliant on a fleet of Z, ZA and ZB EE types, but 
which is getting a couple more GM rebuilds of similar power to its EEs.

In the small book, 'Rails to the Top End', there are photos of an NJ coupled 
back to back with an NT on a train- the 'Chaser' which followed the Ghan, I 
think.  I'd always assumed from this that NJs might have had the ability to 
work with NTs- but the combo probably occurred due to a breakdown or loco 
balancing requirements.

Cheers

Ben

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