Re: Very smoky XPT

[trainboy@ozemail.com.au]

In article <36999370.2BDA@NOSPAMacay.com.au>,
  vanbaast@NOSPAMacay.com.au wrote:

> also what would be the viability (i think i may have asked this in
> another message somewhere..) of selling all the XPT sets to somewhere
> where they have worse trains than them and run all Xplorers, would they
> be able to run in say an 8 car config with only 2 driving cars?

Viability: none.  Explorers were designed to be light on their feet for
country branch lines, with the ability to easily split up and work to
separate locations (like Moree/Armidale).  You would be able to run the above
configuration (There are 7 non-driving cars), but why would you bother?

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