RE: NSU on the standard gauge

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

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Hello all

No, it didn't make a lot of sense.  For the NSU they used the engine to 
create the classification. For the NT they classified according to the 
builder, although the NT was a Sulzer too.  For the NJ they went with the 
model type. The possible NG classification (G for GM) had already been used 
in the steam era.

The idea was floated that the NJs could be converted to B-B SG units after 
the CAR closed, but the resulting unit would have been pretty light and 
underpowered to have been of much use on the standard gauge ANR lines.

I actually have a shot from an old Recorder 1980\81 ? of an NT on Gladstone 
turntable on four wheel trucks.  Very strange. They may have been moving it 
about on a spare set of 500 trucks or something. I doubt it ever ran as a 
B-B.

Cheers

Ben


>From: "Stratton, Chris CP" <Stratton.Chris.CP@bhp.com.au>
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>Subject: RE: NSU on the standard gauge
>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:02:27 +1000
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>On a slightly different topic, but related to the NSU, was there any logic 
>in the CR loco classifications. The N was for narrow gauge so I assume the 
>SU was for Sulzer, is this correct? Then the NT would probably have been 
>Narrow Tulloch? So where did NJ come from, if following this system it 
>should have been NGM or NC (for Clyde)? But NB and NC had been used earlier 
>so was J the next letter they thought of?
>On the standard gauge the GM is obvious, but where did CL come from, does 
>it mean Clyde? From then on it looks like they kept the L and just picked 
>other letters to put in front of it.
>Regards,
>Chris.
>
>EOM
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