Re: Trains, Road Trains and a little bit of info.

["James C" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

Certainly no fun if you get under these things....or when the truck driver
asleep while driving.......

Let Frieght Australia take over all their business:-)

Cheers
James



Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in message
news:8F46A4B29telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net...
> Tell  said:
>
> >B-Doubles, yes most folks have seen them.
> >
> >Triple road trains.!  ....well I suspect most folks
> >down south and along the east coast have never seen one
> >of these in the flesh.
>
> Do you know any websites with pictures of these? I remember going to SA
> last last year and seeing baby-road-trains run between Adelaide and beyond
> Port Augusta (as far as I got), and was slightly intrigued by them.
>
> >Quad trains.  Yoiks.!  Yep that's my word for them.
> >This is a prime mover with a tri-axle trailer, behind
> >that another tri-axle trailer AND behind that a
> >B-Double, just follow the ASCII below.
> >
> >0===00=====000----00=====000----00====000====000
> >[single lines indicate draw bars, that's "tow bars" for
> >you folks uninitiated in the parlance]
>
> How dangerous would these things be for normal road users?! Moreso, how
> would you go overtakign one of these? It would be like trying to overtake
> two 22 wheelers (hope this is correct terminology) and a B double!
>
> >They are presently working fuel tanker road trains from
> >Darwin to Alice Springs at the moment.!
>
> Hrm, would be nice to see this on rails once the line is built. I'm not
> holding my breath though.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael
>
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