Re: Unfamiliar FreightRail engine sighting.

[keithm@commslab.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <7j8nug$ona$1@merki.connect.com.au> "Gayford" <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au> writes:
>From: "Gayford" <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>
>Subject: Re: Unfamiliar FreightRail engine sighting.
>Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 00:26:27 +1000

>Distributed power is probably OK in remote areas but I have heard it has
>problems in built up areas with lots of electo magnetic interference. I
>would have thought that FC would have known of that problem though they may
>have been experimenting with ways to get over it.  My question is why do we
>in NSW keep persisting with spending money on obsolete old crap instead of
>purchasing new units. In WA they have given up topping and tailing freight
>trains on the narrow gauge.

How much more would new units have cost, it is only two units they already had 
so why not play around with them.

Dave Malcolm


>Cheers

>Rod Gayford
>Krel <krel4203@netconnect.com.au> wrote in message
>37560c29.20801679@news.netconnect.com.au">news:37560c29.20801679@news.netconnect.com.au...
>> On Tue, 01 Jun 1999 07:47:52 GMT, Malcolm Purvis
>> <malcolmp@trd.abc.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> >Seen at about 9:15am this morning going through Lidcombe at the rear end
>of a
>> >good train was P12 (I think that that is correct number) decked out in
>> >FreightCorp livery.  I haven't seen it before.  Does anybody know
>anything
>> >about it?
>> >
>> PL 2 is an ex 48 class modified for push-pull and driver only
>> operation. PL stands for "Port Link".
>>
>> Cheers
>> Cheers
>>
>> Krel
>>
>> Waxy Wary Zany Zebu