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Re: Hmm

David Johnson wrote:
> Rob Kearey wrote:
> > I saw the Great Southern Express thing at Roma St the other night,
> > coupled up to a shiny, new 2300. A friend of mine who lives by the
> > Fisherman's Island branch swears upon a stack of grandmothers that
> > when the thing went by, it sounded turbocharged. Any truth to this
> > scurrilous rumour?
> 
> What sounded turbocharged?

The locomotive, apparently. Are the diesel generator sets in the power
car turbocharged? I can conceive of worse ideas, in terms of emissions
and noise levels.

> Not having been to Queensland for a while, what is a 2300 class?  Who made them?

I was under the impression it was another batch of 2100's, but I could
be wrong - I can never keep up to date with QR renumbering. My chum was
under the impression that it had somehow been remanufactured.

As I recall, a 2100 is mechanically equivalent to an anorexic 422.

> David Johnson

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