>NR77 arrived on the point of the Overland promptly at 8.00am today,
>Sunday 2 Nov 1997 with a "Ghan" power car, 5 cars, and an Indian
>Pacific bagge car.
>GSR uniformed personnel were in attendance.
>RTS' J class still provides shunting and docking assistance.
>Regards
>Yuri
You have to wonder about the economics of running a 5 car passenger train with
a $3.5 million dollar 4000HP loco on the front.
How long can this go on for, or are NR running this train at a loss?
5 cars with a power van & luggage van would weigh no more than 350 tonnes,
equals about 11.5 HP/tonne, more than the XPT..
Beats me
cheers
MD
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Maurie Daly
Department of Communications Lab.
Canberra
Australia
mauried@commslab.gov.au
ph 6 2791331
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