Re: Loco cab safety

[Richard <richard_snook@primus.com.au>]

Good point about the flared radiators, they offer far better airflow and cooling...and yes the US cabs lok better buti
believe the aussie cab was favoured as offers cooler cabs and better and sun-flaring..but am prepared to stand corrected
on that, thats just my understanding

cheers >:~)) Richard

Rod Gayford wrote:
> 
> 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)