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Re: C in Wagga





SJG <kahnn@tpgi.com.au> wrote in article
<3428e32c.1793151@wag-news.tpgi.com.au>...
> on 22/9 i witnessed a perculiar event at the Wagga Wagga rail yard. A
> number of carriages carrying coils of steel were there basically all
> day with a heavy crane. However, nothing much seemed to be happening
> (i.e they were not unloading or loading new coils). 8172 was the
> shunter.
> 
> The train stayed till after 5:00pm where a freight train from Albury
> headed by an unidentifiable C class picked up the train and moved it
> Junee way, with 8172 on the end of the train still running (but not
> helping push the train).
> 
> If anyone has more detailed info about what happened or the story
> behind this it would be much appreciated.
> Stefan.
> 
The 6 wagons were all load shifts. the cranes were there to do the required
adjustments so that they were safe to travel. The C class was detached at
ANM Ettamogah to replace their Aresco Track Chief truck placer which had
failed. After shunting the paper mill during the day the C returned to
Junee and since most of the loading was northbound it made more sense to
take it with them to Junee rather than leave it at the mill for the
northbound trains (AS6 & MB2) to pick up. AFAIK the C class rescue run
to/from ANM Ettamogah may run for a little while until the truck placer can
be repaired.


-- 
Cheers Krel

The Law of Inverse Proportions - The chances of the signal clearing 
without having to get out of the cab and go to a lineside phone is inversly
proportional to the amount of rain falling at the time :-)