Re: WAGR Tank Engines

["David & Jan Winter" <winterdspamtrap@nospam-icenet.com.au>]

John Duncan McCallum wrote in message <372EC7FC.6DC06D64@melbpc.org.au>...
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>David & Jan Winter wrote:
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> The suburban tank would AFAIK be too heavy for Dwellingup
>> and have too short a range for most of HVR's "mainline" runs.
>> DW
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>I wonder if it would be. AFAIK, the axle load of a Dd is less than that
>of a Pmr.
>The limiting factor would be load allowed over the trestle bridges on
>the line.
>Dds were used on trips to Bunbury in years gone by. The longest trip I
>have been
>on behind a Dd or Dm was a round trip to Serpentine, out via Armadale
>and return
>via Kwinana and Fremantle. Water was taken on at Serpentine only.
>Regarding the loco's weights, I will if I can find out and post the
>results to
>the group.
>
>John McCallum

John,

HVR's trips to places such as Toodyay, Jarrahdale, Dwellingup, yes.

Runs through to Donnybrook, etc - and certainly the 3-day rail cruises -
would be stretching it on coal.

Is the PMR allowed up to Dwellingup on a regular basis? IIRC, the DM and DD
ran an axleload close to 15 tons.

DW