Re: 3801 - IT'S BLACK ..... WHY????

[keithm@happy.dca.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <7q0qlk$miu$1@news.tmx.com.au> "Trevor Edmonds" <tedmonds@tmx.com.au> writes:
>From: "Trevor Edmonds" <tedmonds@tmx.com.au>
>Subject: Re: 3801 - IT'S BLACK ..... WHY????
>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 23:15:24 +1000

>Rob Kearey wrote in message...

>>Does 3801 still have the downrated boiler?


>Yes, it was restored (12 years ago) according to the current boiler code.
>3830 was done to the original boiler code, which gave it the full 245psi.

>Trevor

Wasn't that only because some clever dick decided it would be better to 
use a thicker inner fire box than it was built with, which is a major 
modification and there for requires the modification to come under the new 
boiler code rather than the one it was built and opperated under for 30 years.

Dave Malcolm