Re: electric loco 4501 or 7001

[chris <chris@enet21.com.au>]

who does the maintanence work on electric locos now? Gonnians? I assume the
vandalism occured after it was transfered to the RTM, as I remember seeing the cab
in the early 80's and although dirty it was not vandalised.

Chris

Chris

Matthew Geier wrote:

> In article <3948A233.5E794DDB@enet21.com.au>,
> chris  <chris@enet21.com.au> wrote:
> >I had thought it was kinda complete, as I heard a story that it wouldn't take
> >much to get it going again except the will of the RTM's management.
> >
>
>  I've been in side it. While most of the parts might be there, they are NOT
> in the right order. :-)
>  The abestos was at least partially stripped out and any part in the way was
> either cut off or left in a pile in the corner.
>
>  The cabs have been heavly vandalised.
>
>  The window to restore it to operation has been lost I expect. While the 46
> class were still running, and there were trained fitters and parts that could
> be taken from 46 class, there was a chance. Now, forget it. We'l have a
> hard enough time trying to remember how to repair the 46 class, let alone
> the similar but not quite the same prototype.
>
>  The easiest way to get 7100 running again would to be complete the vandalism
> job and put a modern solid state converters in the body. No one would see the
> chopper modules inside the car-body :-)