Re: FA A Class

[Mark Bau <markbau@earthlink.net>]

in article 95dhi0$6t4$1@nnrp1.deja.com, Doug Mason at dmason@deakin.edu.au
wrote on 2/1/01 10:45 PM:

> I have been told that Freight Australia's A85 is now able to pull a
> bigger load than the rest of the A class so when did it get a new engine
> or what ever done to it.
> 

Sure it hasn't just had its gear ratio changed back to the same as the rest
of the class? (A85 was high speed geared shortly after it was rebuilt,
actually I think it was rebuilt that way)

The other possibility is that its had its gear ratio changed to freight
gearing, I believe FA have a program to do this to all of their locos.

Mark