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Re: Loco cab safety
- Subject: Re: Loco cab safety
- From: Paul Johnston <gonoNOCRAP@bigpond.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 07:13:46 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Future Perversions Inc.
- References: <3ts04.117$mc3.3292@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net> <81ts3n$2m5a$1@otis.netspace.net.au> <38433e15@nap-ns1> <821v6j$8gd$1@otis.netspace.net.au> <mauried.486.38449890@commslab.gov.au> <8226b1$ftr$1@news1.mpx.com.au> <38467594.E0299017@fastlink.com.au>
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 00:35:16 +1100, Railway Rasputin
<bob@fastlink.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>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
They would have had the hammer head radiators had they fitted the
loading gauge but they would not have so consequently they had Two
radiator fans instead of one in the US units.
>From my experience in Vic they don't have marginal cooling systems.
regards
Regards Paul Johnston (MNRC)