Re: 36 and auto-couplers

["Patrick J Buchanan" <mainline@localnet.com.au>]

Hello All,
During July 1961 the following Pigs were allocated to Junee, primarily for
goods working to Albury.
3607  3620  3633  3648  3658
As I understand it, at some stage they were fitted with auto's on the
tender, only. They were intended for fast goods workings, the rollingstock
of which was largely fitted with 'modern' drawgear. The old 'Tinplate
Express' (LLV's, TLV's, etc) is an example, and was largely worked by steam,
in its initial years. Diesels quickly took over, however.
The article Albury Steam Days in Byways of Steam 9 (IMHO, a reliable source)
also refers to this.
I would expect the tenders would have been swapped around amongst the class
during the last years of the Pigs.
There may of course been others similarly fitted. But they definately would
have been a small minority.
I very much doubt that a roundtop ever received such mod's. And I definately
have never seen a Pig fitted with auto's on the front. At least in regular
traffic. IMHO the Standard Goods fitted with auto's on the front were
bordering on ugly, however a big engine, such as a Pig could get away with
it.
Maybe, someone more knowledgable and with a better memory then mine could
add to this, as generally, in my early photographing days I was more
familiar with a Pigs smokebox end.

As always I stand corrected.
Regards                            mainline@localnet.com.au
Patrick J. Buchanan            mameco@auscape.net
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>kestrel wrote in message <3506A394.F4E30459@wr.com.au>...
>I'm currently modelling a belpaire 36 class locomotive and
>need to know how many were provided with auto-couplers and
>what the numbers were.
>
>Were any round top loco's provided with auto-couplers too?
>
>Thanks and bye for now,
>Brian
>
>