Re: 40 class bogies

Chris Stratton (stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au)
23 Oct 1997 01:10:22 GMT

Allan Brown <ajbrown@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
<344D8085.121F@ozemail.com.au>...
> To put an end to this discussion on the equidistant/asymmetric bogies on
> the NSWGR 40 class diesel electrics, my original belief that the 40
> class was a stock standard American RSD4/5 was wrong. It was, in fact, a
> stock standard RSC3! The RSD4/5s had the asymmetric Co-Co bogies: the
> RSC3 had the equidistant A-1-A. So that's the answer.
> Yes, I am currently eating crow for not knowing something which is in
> print in the latest Eveleigh press book "Green Diesels".
> I really expected to have been picked up on it by now. Sorry, guys.
>
> Allan Brown
>
>
They weren't quite standard off the shelf. One difference that I know of
without looking up books is that the top half of the cab sides were sloped
inwards to fit the NSW loading gauge.
-- 
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au   


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