Re: Re: Train Numbers

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

On 11 Jun 2001 22:27:12 +1000, "Bradley Torr"
<truenorth@one.net.au.SPAMTRAP> wrote:

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>Jonathan Boles <jaboles@crossswinds.net> wrote in article
><9g28mf$19g$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au>...
>> Why bother with the elec loco, why not just make it diesel all the way?
>
>I was wondering that too. I remember, as a kid in the Eighties, watching a
>television doco about the Indian-Pacific and the doco showed that there was
>an electric loco from Sydney Central to Lithgow, and diesel from there
>onwards. They did give a reason for this, but I forget what it was. It
>might have been for faster acceleration or more torque going up steep
>gradients in the Blue Mountains or something.

Perhaps the 4000HP electric locos instead of the 2000HP diesels.


David Johnson
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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