Re: "Day of the Roses"

[kingpin1@ozemail.com.au (Derek Woodlands)]

'Twas a dark and stormy night on Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:49:27 +1100 as Lambing Flat
<"BullaCk"@(nospam)cia.com.au> took time out from the neverending quest to rid
the world of grues and wrote:
 
>  
> I have to agree with Albert, between 1977 and 1989, when I used to see
> quite a lot of 46s, I never once saw a single unit that didn't have both
> pans raised, and if there was more than one on the train, they only had one
> pan each raised.  I asked a driver about it once and he said it had
> something to do with the "airgaps" in the overhead.
> 
I used to catch a 46 class hauled train between 1970 and 1975 (on the Central
Coast to Sydney run) and I can only remember the locomotive having the rear pan
raised.  I checked this with a couple of former 46 class drivers I know and they
confirmed that generally only one was raised.  It was only when a big load was
being hauled that the second one was used.

Catchya

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