Re: Who maintains the ELs.

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

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:33:57 +1100, "Pete Kilburn"
<juneejct@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>Evening All
>
>
>The EL 's are serviced by Austrac at Junee on a 90 day cycle, what should happen is that an engine
>due for service is swapped for one out of the pool, the engine requiring service is worked to Junee,
>is fully serviced, washed and the cabin area cleaned, if the loco has no problems it is worked back
>to the lessor, for use for the next cycle, if an engine has a major failure while in service it is
>forwarded to Goninon's ASAP and an available engine from the pool is substituted, this does not
>always happen as easily as it sounds ,due mainly to the fact that the EL's are rather popular loco's
>which makes it difficult at times to produce another loco on demand.
>
>Yours,    Pete Kilburn,
>         Junee,
>
Thanks for the very good explanation Peter.
Your comment that the ELs are a very popular loco is interesting as 
initially they were offered to NRC for free and were rejected.
Maybe its time that CFCLA asked Goninans to build some more.
You could make a very good freight loco by dropping the narrow guage
traction motors and putting in the bigger 752 AG motors.

MD