Re: Excess NR Locos for Sale

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Mark Bau" <markbau@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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| 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!

Bet they didn't.