Re: SD40s for ASR?

["James C." <james_ccj@my-deja.com>]

In article <3923CFFB.9B4BFA1D@enet21.com.au>,
  chris <chris@enet21.com.au> wrote:
> The advantage of buying reconditioned USA diesels is you can get them
quicker and
> cheaper than going thru concerns like Clyde & Gonnians (and alot less
drama).
Except you would kill off local manufactory industries.


> From memory GM in the US can build a DE in about 1/3 the time it
takes for a
> aussie company (that is why there are US diesels in the Hunter
>Valley).
Forward planning will over come this problem...and if clyde/Goninah
gets more order/demand, they will add more workers hence accelerate the
production, in fact. QR's tilt train/SMU/IMU and class 4000 DLs all
arrived earlier then expected.

>In the
> USA you can buy "stock" reconditioned DE's of the shelf. (Aparently
they paint
> them grey so the customer can the paint them in his company colors)
"Portotype" you meant??



>I wouldn't be
> supprised if alot of flat cars, ballast hoppers, and even used
passenger stock
> (maybe from Rio Tinto as  it has showed its true colours and is eager
to get rid
> of its US passenger stock now that it has gotten rid of the Pendenis
Castle)
> arrive in Australia from the US for the Darwin rail link. If and when
the Darwin
> line is built, it is a fair bet that the line as far a Orange or
Bathurst will be
> eventualy modified to a US loading gauge. It then becomes very
expensive once you
> hit the mountians and Sydney. Bathurst or Orange will eventually get
a container
> terminal.
I hope the entire interstate system are upto US loading gauge, as well
as the tracks are heavy enough to carry those "Big MAC" style locos and
Double stacker carriages. One of the reason why Clyde/Goninha build
stuff slowly is beacuse they have to redegin everything to suit
Australian narrow loading gauge and relatively light tracks. Otherwise
they can just use the blue prints from GM/GE.


> Btw, there are some groups, including Leightons and the Stevadoring
companies who
> privately don't want the rail link to go thru. Leightons and P&O hate
it as it
> torpedos the building of a container terminal on the site of the
Newcastle
> Steelworks.
>
> Chris
Oh Well, the famous "NIMBY",





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James


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