Re: CLCF locos?

["< Tell >" <telljb@01.ozemail.com.au>]

Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote and I have
snipped selectively:
> 
> These are the EL class. Owned by Chicago Freight Car Leasing, Australia. On 
> hire from CFCLA at the moment by: Austrac, Freight Australia and LVRF 
> (Lachlan Valley Rail Freight). While not familiar with Sydney, the area you 
> describe sounds suspiciously like the line for the Botany and Cooks River 
> yards.
> 
> Yes, these are the diesel answer to the the Tangara. Built by Goninan and 
> intended for passenger use. After the demise of AN these locos saw very 
> little service, until CFCLA decided to cash in on the idea. Many of them 
> have since been regeared from high speed passenger specs to lower speed / 
> higher torque freight specs. AFAIK, they are mechanically similar to the NR 
> class.


Perhaps Gah-nin-nin may have intended these for
passenger use.  BUT Australian National had them
earmarked for high speed intermodal freight.

Political changes, read NRC changed all that.  
They were used on the Ghan but nowhere near as much as
the other classes, such as DL's and the later CLP's.

----Tell
Alice Springs
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