Re: dynamometercar

["Chris" <chris@enet21.com.au>]

There's at one of these sitting in Clyde yard, I don't know who owns it ,
but they have been there quite a while, maybe Dorrigo?, as they seem to use
that area as a base before transfering stuff north

Chris
"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> David Johnson (trainman@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> > When we were testing the 90 class locos, we put the dyno car between the
1st and
> > 2nd locos so we wouldn't pull the dyno car apart.   Climbing up to the
long
> > tunnel on the Ulan line was a bit of a worry - the car was creaking and
bending
> > in places it shouldn't have been!
>
> Is that the last operational dynamometer car in Australia?
>
> The former joint V&SAR car was theoretically operational when sent to
> Adelaide in the early 90s. The equipment was all there and usable, but
> had not been calibrated since the mid-80s.
>
> Cheers
> David