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Re: 4 R's one train any way possible

Subject: Re: 4 R's one train any way possible
From: John Duncan McCallum <mccallum@melbpc.org.au>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:08:22 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Melbourne PC User Group
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Derick Wuen wrote:
 
> snip

> I once bought a ticket to ride behind N&W A 1218, in "car 1". Car 1 was 13
> cars from the front, including the crew/tool baggage car...... all the
> intervening cars were privately owned cars, some by railfan "chapters",
> others by individuals. Whole train was at least 20 cars long, and booked
> out. Still didn't stress the A however. I would buy a ticket to ride behing
> 4 R's, preferably in the first car, however numbered.


That is not surprising. One of N&W's A class (it may have been 1218)
once hauled
a 210 car coal train and got it up to 50mph.


John McCallum

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