Re: Rails by air (Was Sydney tram wheel profile)

["John Wayman" <trecker@bigpond.com>]

All infrastructure construction contracts these days have penalty clauses in
the event of  late completion of projects.

Air freight of rails is probably cheap insurance that the project will be
completed on time!

Cheers
John Wayman

James Robinson wrote in message <367A4F90.275F@ERIE.NET>...
>thalytgv@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>>
>> General Motor's EMD send its new locos to Ireland few years ago by air as
>> well.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with planes but photo from "Today's Railways" the plane
>> looks like a Jumbo jet and it seems like the plane can fit 2 locomotives
>> inside.
>
>EMD sent only one locomotive by air.  The rest of the order was routed
>by rail/ship.  The reason the first one went by air was a marketing
>stunt for the airlift company, (Air Foyle) and as well the first
>locomotive was a bit late in delivery.
>
>Photo:
>
>http://www.ehlg.org/frameset/action.htm?../member/action/airfoyle
>
>The aircraft was an Antonov 124.  Air Foyle is a British company that is
>marketing the services of these Ukranian planes, which are the largest
>aircraft in the world, other than the one Antonov 225 that carried the
>Soviet version of the space shuttle.