RE: EE Locos and other things

[Mike Dix <mdix@mrt.tas.gov.au>]

Aus loco discussion mailing list

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

Sorry but this is a leading statement that should not be given too much
weight. Who says the X and Y locos didn't operate well together? There was
no problem with MU operation, the only major problem was that X locos were
not designed for low speed slogging which the Y class were better at. The XA
modification was to lessen that problem. Otherwise they operated quite
happily together throughout their lives. The fact that the X class was not
good at low speed slog work was shown in AN days when a number of locos
suffered from burnt out generators when crawling up Kimberley bank with
heavy trains, and these mostly were in all X class combinations.

Michael Dix
mdix@mrt.tas.gov.au
Phone (03) 6233 8348


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