Re: Loco cab safety

["Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>]

The point is that I have not heard of US GE's with the flaired radiators
having problems. I understand it was deleted here only to enable bi
directional running. If the long hood was leading the crews forward vision
would be impaired. They only run cab forward in the US. Maybe we shouls
stick with proven designs and not stuff around. I cannot understand why we
didnt stick with the US cab also. It appears we have made a good looking
reliable loco unreliable and plug ugly to boot.

Cheers
Rod Gayford
Paul Johnston <gonoNOCRAP@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> 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)