Re: C Class Rumours

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

TM wrote:

> There may be some confusion here between the "live" weight and "dead"
> weight of locos, and possibly between metric tonnes and US short tons.
>
> The NSW WTT shows the following weights:
>                      Dead Weight                   Live Weight
>                           Tonnes                           Tonnes
> C class                 148                                   134
> NR class              145                                   132
> 90 class                181                                  165

For those who do not know, the live weight is the physical weight of the
locomotive.  The dead weight is used to account for the friction of the traction
motors when the locomotive is part of a train's load.

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David Johnson
CityRail Guard
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