Re: WAGR Tank Engines

["Graybags" <ews2@ozemail.com.au>]

An Interesting aside:
The original 'U' class engines were a wartime design by a British supplier.
Virtually identical examples of the same design were supplied to Sudan
Railways, also to 3' 6".
I remember seeing photographs of abandoned 'U' class pacifics in a
mid-1980's 'Steam Railway' magazine.
AFAIK, they are still sitting in the desert air in Sudan.
Cheers
Ed

David & Jan Winter <winterdspamtrap@nospam-icenet.com.au> wrote in article
<372dc3ce.0@news.highway1.com.au>...
> Correct - the U was a Pacific. The Ut gained an extra axle to support the
> bunker.
> IIRC The old WAGR monochrone info sheets on the U class feature one
pulling
> the Australind circa 1948. DW
> Chris Stratton wrote in message
<7ge4m9$qmt17@atbhp.corpmel.bhp.com.au>...
> >Chris French wrote in message <372842B8.B872875B@starwon.com.au>...
> >>Yes the Ut was indeed an austere looking loco, but hardly 'ugly' in my
> >opinion
> >>- more 'distinctive'.
> >>
> >>Anyway, other tank locos (incomplete list) were:
> >>Class    W/Arrangement
> >>N         4-4-4T
> >>D         4-6-4T
> >>Dd       4-6-4T
> >>Dm      4-6-4T
> >>Ds       4-6-4T
> >>H         0-6-0T
> >>K         2-8-4T
> >>Ut        4-6-2T
> >>
> ><snip>
> >According to Adrian Gunzburg's book Ut664 is a 4-6-4T (Baltic).
> >--
> >Regards,
> >Chris Stratton
> >Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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