Re: [Vic] Footscray Accident - Photo's

["Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

I am sorry to contradict but the chains were holding up loose gear
underneath, as their is no way a responsible decision could be made to
secure 300 tons of train together with such flimsy chains. I take your point
that the train could be very carefully pushed from the rear whilst the front
was being restrained by another powered unit. But The speed would be walking
pace only. I would also imagine spacers would be in place to prevent further
damage to the equipment. A form of spacer would be a heavy piece of  Red gum
chained in place, and that would only be used if the original couplings were
so damaged they could not be easily replaced.
Rod
"B." <b.spammed@four12.net> wrote in message
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> "Michael Doyle" <doyles05@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> dsnT6.364$qJ4.10340@ozemail.com.au">news:dsnT6.364$qJ4.10340@ozemail.com.au...
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> > The address is:
> > http://members.optushome.com.au/gunzelpage/scans/trains/
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> > I hope this is right
>
> Yes, that URL is correct.
>
> I inspected proceedings in the evening, and my pictures can be found at:
>
> http://four12.net/fsy
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> They are all 60 - 80kB big (800x531), so if you're not patient then they
> aren't for you... |-)
>
> WRT the discussion on the chains, the cars were all eventually chained up
> together using the quite small chain.  The move back to NPT was made with
> both the front and rear 3 car sets under power, it appeared that the rear
> set actually kept the whole train under compression, thus not loading the
> chains up too much.
>
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> B.
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