Re: 3801 Ltd's PFZ2219 on IP

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

David Johnson (trainman@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> David "The Doctor" Proctor wrote:

> > Just on this topic, I noticed recently there is a lot of empty room under
> > the carriages used on these services - would it not be better to place a
> > small generator under each carriage, but using only one at a time, with the
> > one that is running supplying the whole train? That would eliminate the
> > power van, which is dead weight, and also provide some backup generating
> > capacity, in case one of the generators fail.

> The power van has 4 generators - plenty of spare capacity in case one fails.

But in this case, didn't one of the axle hourlans sieze? 500kVA of power
is useless if the van can't be moved.

Cheers
David