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Re: Detonating Signals

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Detonating Signals
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 02:54:45 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
References: <35c30d61.15761751@news.ihug.co.nz> <35C7A3FC.F8BE4E35@lisp.com.au> <6q9h3a$rc$1@supernews.com> <6q9nu9$pa3$1@news.mel.aone.net.au>
Reply-To: trainman@ozemail.com.au

> maffa wrote in message <6q9h3a$rc$1@supernews.com>...
>
> >Detonators have just become extinct on some class one railroads in the US
> >simply because the cabs on the latest offering from GE and GM are now so
> >well insulated from the outside world that crews can't hear them. It is now
> >the Dispatchers responsibility to ensure the train behind slows down. An
> >announcement by UP was made 2 months ago.

The new Hammersley locos are to have a maximum internal sound level of 55 dB(A)

--
David Johnson
CityRail Guard
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/

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