Re: Power for crew cars

[mauried@tpg.com.au (Maurie Daly)]

On 27 Nov 2000 19:29:00 GMT, adamdunning@start.com.au (Adam Dunning)
wrote:

>In article <8vrvf7$t04$1@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, 
>s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au says...
>>I hear the end has already been ripped out of one car already on these 
>services.
>
>If by pulling the end out of a car you mean the drawgear or something similar, 
>than this would be in agreance with what some ASR drivers have been saying with 
>the SCT holding them up on regular occassions due to events like that 
>happening.
>

Good point.
Normal steel cars like ex Aurora cars had drawgear rated at approx 900
tonnes of trailing load.
I guess that a crew car on the TAR could have anything up to 5000
tonnes on its drawbar.
Wonder if the cars sub frame has been strengthened?

MD