Re: 422's to Broken Hill

["Jack" <dave60@dingoblue.net.au>]

Hi David.....

David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
VOIp4.621$A_1.445798@news0.optus.net.au">news:VOIp4.621$A_1.445798@news0.optus.net.au...
> It's _usually_ the rear power car providing hep, a practice inherited from
> British Rail. The reason was to ensure that the rear power car wasn't
> pushing harder than the front one was pulling.


The unit on supply pulls more motor amps in 1 notch than the unit not on
supply.... so if you have supply on the rear, because of slackness
throughout the autos on the train you will constantly have the rear engine
"running in".. There is no particular reason to run either unit on supply,
it is purely drivers choice..
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Cheers
Jack

Queensland beautiful one day perfect
the next.... And wet the other 363 days
of the year