Re: VN, VSH sets

["Peter Cook" <glt0145@ozemail.com.au>]

I don't now about where you guys are but here in the Mackay coal fields of
Central Queensland A VSH is a 104 tonne coal.
Peter C
glt0145@ozemail.com.au
peter.cook@qr.com.au
The Fat Man Strike's Again

Roderick Smith wrote in message <01bee243$1fb081a0$522e11cb@rodsmith>...
>Michael Anonymous asked a few questions about V sets.
>The couplers in the VSH are exactly as the vehicles had them when in other
>consists, a legacy of the couplers which they had when Harris emu vehicles.
>
>I am surprised that this was possible.  When SH sets were created, the hep
>wiring was done on the cheap: former control circuits were used.  This
>limited the amount of current which could be transmitted.  It was found
>that four carriages could be powered, but six always required pull-push
>working or a central powervan.  Now the limit has been cribbed to five.
>Have the carriages been rewired with conventional hep cabling?
>
>The V coding, of course, indicates five carriages; F had already been used
>to indicate four.  VLine has strayed so far from the fixed consist concept,
>that it may have been timely to abandon set coding too.
>
>When Qantas bought its first 707s, it planned to call them F-jets (fan
>jets); marketing people convinced management to use V-jets (from the Latin
>vannus, a fan) instead!
>--
>Regards
>Roderick Smith
>Rail News Victoria Editor
>
>Michael <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in article
><8E1AB476BtelstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net>...
>> VSH set consisted of:
>> BCH-BIH-BTH-BCH-BTH - Appeared to be one SH set tacked onto two more cars
>
>> (SH set missing the BIH car? FSH set missing the BH-BIH cars?). The first
>
>> BTH off the complete SH set is autocoupled with the BCH of tbe broken
>set,
>> as opposed to the drawbar couplings of the rest of the set. Cheaper?
>> Easier? More flexible perhaps? [makes u wonder why they did it, maybe
>they
>> have been taught logic??]
>> VN set consisted of:
>> ACN-BRN-BN-BZN-BTN - No comments really, nothing unusual.
>> It appears that a VSH can be pulled by ONE P class, a welcome change from
>
>> the push-pulled P+SH+SH+P / P+FSH+FSH+P / P+FSH+SH+P sets
>