Re: [Vic] Freight return to Cold stream??

[Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>]

James C. <james_ccj@my-deja.com> said:

>This service need branch line units, probabily T/Y/RTL or 830 class, I
>doubt QR's locos can fit BG bogies, QR have no intention to sell them at
>this stage anyway,Freight corp have no intention to sell their 48, 422
>and 80s(80s probabily won't be used on this line) neither, even if they
>do they probabily won't sell them to FA, can FA borrow some
>shunter/branch line loco from Rail America?? since most of their lines
>comprised with branches/short lines.

Hate to break the news, but the 422's were sold last week or so to ASR (: 
At a guess, the 48's are also on their last freightcorp legs. (Freightcorp 
legs seem to be a lot weaker than everyone else). RSA already disposed of a 
number of 44 and 45 class to GNR recently, still awaiting delivery AFAIK.

You should be able to fit broad guage bogies on most GM locos without much 
modification, including QR locos. As a very vague example locomotive D1, 
which ran on the Fyansford 3'6" line, became T413 (a change from a 3'6" to 
5'3"). Conversely, former T class, CK1 (correct me on the number) which 
lived most of it's life on broad guage, has now become 3'6" way down in the 
murky depths of South Australia.

Regards

Michael

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