Re: NSW garret parts

["Service Planning" <service.plan@qr.com.au>]

Just another point its Garratt, not Garrett ,they make gas turbines.
Steve
robson <robson@cia.com.au> wrote in message
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> chris@enet21.com.au wrote:
> >
> > Can anybody give further information on the reuse of parts off steam
locos
> > for other uses.
>
>
> There was a 58 class boiler at the timber mill at Briggsvale on the
Dorrigo
> Plateau in Nothern NSW. It was in use until the early 80s. It was then cut
in
> half long ways for use as a creosote bin. The mill burnt down in the mid
90s.
>
> 60 class Garrett pony trucks were used to make the X200 class rail
tractors.
> Steam loco tender frames were used for the rail sets that still operate
out of
> Chullora. The steam loco tender bogies were used as well on these wagons,
until
> replaced by roller bearing bogies about 10 years ago.
>
> Rob