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Re: Modern high speed steam to Mackay.

Subject: Re: Modern high speed steam to Mackay.
From: "Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:43:53 +1100
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited.
References: <911224250.340427@gateway1.brisnet.org.au> <72pbn1$k41$1@news.mel.aone.net.au> <36513ac2.0@news.bris.corplink.com.au> <36522E60.FCCAEE7B@nmit.vic.edu.au>
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David wrote in message <36522E60.FCCAEE7B@nmit.vic.edu.au>...
>
>Can't they build a hybrid - run off the overhead, then power up the diesel
to
>Cairns? After all the final traction is electric ! ( could ask this about
all
>DE's I suppose )
>
>David Head
>
>
I'm sure they had locos like this in the US, I think they called them
electro-diesels.
--
Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au

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