Re: Re:[Syd] Original S10

["Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@eisa.net.au>]

What happened to one that was stuffed and mounted outside Elcar?  I thought
the RTM received theirs prior to Elcar closing so there may be two survivors
plus the one converted to a trailer.
Cheers
Rod gayford

"Bob Merchant" <bob.merchant@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Bill is right, the four motor cars were test beds for various
manufacturer's
> electrical equipment and bogies.  They served their purpose...
>
> Regards,
> Bob Merchant
>
> "Bill McNiven" <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> | >"trendy rechauffé" wrote:
> | >>
> | >> The original 4 Sydney Tulloch double deck motor cars only lasted a
few
> | years
> | >> before they were stored and in some cases converted to trailers. I'd
> say
> | >> some of those cars were used less that the 4d.
> | The Railway Rasputin II wrote in message
> | <38CE28F6.2EE03CDF@fastlink.com.au>...
> | >3 out of the 4 were converted but only one of these made it into
traffic
> | >now getting arround as T4799. The other two, according to my souce,
were
> | >converted but were scrapped.
> | >3804 is at the RTM.
> |
> |
> | OK.  The Tulloch 8DD set entered service late in 1968, and was gone by
> about
> | 1975.  For much of the time, only two or three of the power cars were
> | available for service, and some strange compositions like 6DD + 2 Comeng
> | ("sputnik") single-deck cars ran around.
> |
> | C3801 and C3803 became T4797 and T4799, and T4799 is still around.
> Sometime
> | around 1984, the futility of these conversions became apparent, and
C3804
> | was offered to the RTM.  BTW, 3804 was the first double-deck power car
to
> | operate in the world.  The trailers (T4839, T4840, T4843, T4844) from
S10
> | also seem to be still around.
> |
> | Even though these cars were definitely experimental prototypes, I think
> they
> | lasted longer in regular service than the unlamented Melbourne 4D.  In
any
> | case, 5/8 of the set is still in service over 30 years later!
> |
> | Rgds
> |
> | Bill
> |
> |
> |
>