Re: Vic, NthEast line

["comtrain" <comtrain@optusnet.com.au>]

Oh! it was bad all right
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every few meters one rail or the other would banana outwards a little, and
then when you found a mudhole, the "normal" side to side slapping motion
would very quickly change into a rotation as the locomotive dived on
compressed springs only to find another lateral diversion and start the side
to side action again.This of course put more strain on the infrastructure
than it was designed for, and the few gangers left had no chance to repair
the cancer as it spread all the way up to the border. Regular mechanised
gangs will need to be rostered to cope with the tonnages that seem to be
increasing fairly steadily on the Melbourne Sydney Trunk.
Mud holes are a problem this year as we have had heaps of rain. Whilst the
rest of Victoria is in drought, we are very waterlogged, and the good old
Murray shoud get a good flushing this year!
Also earthworks are nearly in place and track is being laid in Violet Town
and Benalla, to extend the cripple roads.
Rod [comtrain]
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"michael pascoe" <michael@bitsnpcs.com.au> wrote in message
39cfdd9b@news.iprimus.com.au">news:39cfdd9b@news.iprimus.com.au...
> -Unfortunately their are no roads long enough to stable this machine. ARTC
> -called a tender to extend the existing cripple roads, but the Company
that
> -won the job, apparently, reckons they did not quote on the necessary
earth
> -works. Rail and concrete sleepers have been delivered to each loop, but
> -nothing has been done yet! Would not like to be payting for that Grinder,
> to
> -have it sitting in Melbourne, not doing anything.
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> This is not good, you would have thought that somebody had known this and
> extended the cripple tracks prior to ordering the grinder.
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> Also, just this weekend I had a muse at the workings at Barnawartha and
> south of Chiltern, and I have to say that the track is looking really
> stuffed.  It appears that the mud holes have caused the rail to sink
badly.
> I dont think it was this bad before the works?
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> Regards,
> Michael P
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