Re: 40 class bogies

Roderick Smith (rodsmith@werple.net.au)
8 Oct 1997 14:18:38 GMT

Australian track required a lower axleload, hence the extra axles (modern
buses do this to). Contemporary locos were also A1A-A1A (early GMs, QR
1400s).
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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor


Allan Brown <ajbrown@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
<343B04B5.17D3@ozemail.com.au>...
> It is written that the NSWGR 40 class diesel electrics were a derivative
> of the American RSD4/5 units, but suitably altered for local conditions.
> Considering that the RSD4/5s had asymmetric bogies with all axles
> driving, what prompted the change resulting in the 40 class having
> equdistant A-1-A bogies? Why wasn't a Bo-Bo arrangement used?
> 
> Allan Brown
> 
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