Re: The Great South Pacific Express

["Graham Watkins" <gwatkins@globec.com.au>]

> > JohnMcCandless <johnmc@topend.com.au> wrote in message
> > 01be9de1$03d5d3a0$3c0064c6@johnmc.topend.com.au">news:01be9de1$03d5d3a0$3c0064c6@johnmc.topend.com.au...
> > > afaik, the GPSE continues to Mareeba, where it goes round the angle
> there.
> > >
> > Do they really turn a 20-car train on a triangle built to reverse
locos?
>  
> 
> If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that the triangle is also the
> junction for the
> Forsayth/Chillagoe line, and the Atherton line. There would be no
problems
> reversing a
> train around that.
> 
> 

The triangle is not the junction. Normally only the observation car and
power car I think are turned at Mareeba. The whole train is not turned as
it won't fit on the angle.