Re: Unfamiliar FreightRail engine sighting.

[Stuart Turnbull <stuartt@netspace.net.au>]

Graeme Norton wrote:
> 
> Malcolm Purvis wrote in message ...
> >>>>>> "John" == John Cleverdon <johnc@cdi.com.au> writes:
> 
> >
> >I thought that it looked like a modified 48, but wasn't sure.  A workmate
> >informs me that it can be operated remotely from the engine at the other
> end
> >of the train.  Is that correct?  What other modifications were done to it?
> >
> 
> They have had problems with the remote controll equipment so they have taken
> it out.

Of course the Pilbara railroads (BHP and Robe) have no problems with 
distributed power either. Robe manage to even detach a pair of remote 
locos on the fly and bring them to a stand at an unattended siding 
where they are attached to the next empty train.

Stuart Turnbull