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Re: Loco cab safety
- Subject: Re: Loco cab safety
- From: Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 00:35:16 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Optus Internet
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Dave Proctor wrote:
> > Just about all NR trains on this corridor have 2 NRs or more.
> > Is there any obvious reason why its more likely that a 2nd unit will fail
> in > preferance to the lead unit?
>
> Only thing that I can think of (and I am untrained) is maybe the airflow
> characteristics are causing the units to overheat and fail? Being second
> units, the leading unit *could* be interfering with the the airflow to them.
> Do you know if it does it to a third unit? (Not that there would be many
> triple-NR's running on that corridor).
>
> --
> DaveProctor
> thadocta AT dingoblue.net.au
Thoughts from the "experts" at Campbelltown is that they should of had
the "flaired radiators" like in the US and Hamersely.
rgds