Re: Very smoky XPT

[Robert Harris <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Bob Gioia wrote:

> The answer is (D) all of the below. You would not have seen any V/Line loco as
> smoky as this because they use GM engines and not Paxman. In the UK the
> preserved Deltic locomotives perform this way as they don't get enough
> "thrashing" as the poms call it. Here in NSW I have seen the loco used to
> shunt the Delec wheel lathe end up the same way after many weeks sitting
> idling and not working hard. This is usually fixed with a session on the load
> box.
> Cheers
> Bob

Tell me about it we used D1 to take a waggon load of sleepers up the line, Talk
about black smoke/exaust!

rgds