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Re: Fuelling the Patricks Train
David Bromage <dbromage@metz.une.edu.au> wrote in article
<5vkrr0$b6d$5@gruvel.une.edu.au>...
> Ron Howship (howshr@netlink.com.au) wrote:
> >I was always under the assumption that the EPA would not allow fueling
of
> >locomotives out in the field.
>
> Has anyone told the preservations groups? BPR regularly fuels its diesels
> from road tankers. When the Red Hens were delivered to SGR, they were
> refueled at Speed from a road tanker. I think RM58 was fueled by hand
from
> 200l drums on the ARHS Kulwin trip a few years back.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
I assume Speed is a place :) It would be hard to imagine refuelling a
moving railcar from a moving tanker the way the US Air Force do with
planes. (Tongue firmly in cheek)
--
Chris Stratton
stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au
Any opinions are all my own work.