Re: Italian locos - but not entirely off topic

[David Head <david@nmit.vic.edu.au>]

I head from a very reliable source who regularly post to this group that
the X100 couldn't  handle the shunting. This was Last November (1999) where
we saw  our source in a FA "H" class loco shunting the Albury yard.

Regards,
David Head

Railway Rasputin3 wrote:

> In article <d6Wx5.53$Jt5.4870@news0.optus.net.au>,
>   dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> > Tezza (tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au) wrote:
> >
> > > "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> news:7fSx5.8
> > > > There are still 4(?) X200 class shunters in use in NSW.
> >
> > > Who's using them? I was glad when Chullora finally stopped, mongrel
> things
> > > to try and sleep on.
> >
> > There is/was one in use at Albury. They have been renumbered as X100s
> to
> > allow single person operation.
>
> It is still in Albury stable at the Sydney end of the platform(in
> Freight Corp color). I saw it when my non-aircondition XPT arrived at
> Albury.
>
> Some of them are in Port Kemble station.
>
> --
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>
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