Re: Vic Tangaras

["Ron Bennell" <ron.bennell@qr.com.au>]

Bill Bolton <billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org> wrote in article
<3678b9e3.1711279@news.bigpond.com>...
> "David & Jan Winter" <winterd@icenet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Technical question:
> > 
> > With the Taits and Harris trains - were there separate units that were
MU'd
> > together - so you  could break up a 7 car set into 2 full units and run
a 3
> > and a 4 on lighter traffic?

A 3 car "unit" was not run alone in traffic. It had only one cab.

> 
> 2 full units....Nah.  The 4 car part was the "block" and the 3 car
> part the "unit"... or perhaps it was the other way around... I'm sure
> someone from Victoria will correct me if it was.
> 
Correct, but the terminology did not mean much when they had to be
remarshalled into symetrical sets for the operation of the underground loop

Ron