Re: Excess NR Locos for Sale

["f.u.i.t.b.e.t" <fuitbet@yahoo.com.au>]

The reason why dyno was not used is that most of the Alco`s in service did
not work.
The other issue was in Vic the dyno had to work ex depot....no such
requirement in NSW....so when a unit came in with dyno problems all that was
done was it was cut out....as a matter of fact many Mark1 44`s had thewhole
dyno set up removed during major O`haul......oh and by the way we were
taught to use the air on our long heavy down grades.....I suppose you`d say
that`s  no good but the dyno was\is useless with full loads and high
speed..... we have big hills up here.....even bigger than Avenal bank!!!!!
"Mark Bau" <markbau@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:B7399BEE.6A4D%markbau@earthlink.net...
> in article 3b138e3e$0$25521$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au, Rod
> [comtrain] at freight_man@hotmail.com wrote on 5/29/01 5:51 AM:
>
> > Most of us thought it was pretty funny, particularly in Wodonga, when
Vic
> > Rail crews continually used to get into the Electrical Cabinets and fix
NSW
> > locos, because we were trained to manipulate, and fault find all our
Locos.
> > PTC Inspectors used to know less than us about Fault corrections. You
guys
> > had your ways, we had ours.
>
> Of course it was not that many years ago (early 80's)that NSW crews did
not
> use the dynamic brake! The first time an X ran through to Sydney I was on
> the Aurora, at Albury the "highly trained" NSW crew climbed aboard. I
showed
> the fireman how the X's staff exchanger worked while my driver showed the
> NSW driver a couple of things that the NSW driver was asking about. At the
> end my driver said "And its got a real good dynamic brake" to which the
NSW
> driver replied "Oh I never use that thing"
>
> Bet NR had to run some dynamic 101 classes for all of the NSW blokes!
>
> Mark
>