Re: Abt line reopening

[james_shugg@my-deja.com]

In article <394A32DD.3F378AB9@bigstix.com>,
  wavapoint@behind.post.au wrote:
> This may well have disappeared by tomorrow, but at
>
> http://news.com.au/common/indexlib/0,3921,tas%255E%255E%
255Enews45,00.html
>
> you may see a small picture of the first steam train to run on the
Abt for
> 2000.
>

That has gone now, but this site, mentioned on aus.rail a few months
back, has been updated.

www.geocities.com/bilmac.geo

It includes a photo of V22, back in Queenstown after so long!

I read somewhere that she will get a pinion wheel added underneath to
mesh with the rack on the Abt sections.  Did she have that back in the
old days?  What sort of load could an 0-6-0DM haul up a wet 1 in 16
grade with wheel-rail adhesion only?

James


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