Re: Overland cars for West Coast Rail

[krel4203@netconnect.com.au (Krel )]

On Sat, 19 Dec 1998 07:33:47 GMT, mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie
Daly) wrote:

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>>How about EL + cars + 38 ???
>>Realistically what about EL + XPT cars + XP powercar on trainsupply.
>>Most traction power coming from the EL with assistance from the XP.
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>>Cheers
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>>Krel
>>>Regards
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>This is an interesting suggestion that I had never considered.
>Can the XP power cars be run in multiple with conventional locos , ie do they 
>have the same US 75V MU control , and  is there a MU receptacle at both ends 
>of the XP power car.

Not sure about this but XP will probably need rewiring anyway.

>Also , is there any sort of rulings about having a push pull train with more 
>HP pushing than pulling.
>I beleive that Hamersley do this , but cant think of any others.
>I travelled once on a fan trip from just out of goulburn to Medway , where the 
>entire train plus dead loco at the front was pushed from behind,by another 
>train, and we were belting along at 80 km/h.

XPT with front loco dead and rear loco pushing is still 160 km/h. 
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>cheers
>MD
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Just another eccentric crank.