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Re: Steam Loco design questions
- Subject: Re: Steam Loco design questions
- From: "Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 23:40:45 +1100
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I have seen poling sockets only on steam locos with cast engine beds.
But it takes 2 to tango.
what non-locomotive rolling stock had them? i.e. the polee not the poler?
BCH had them; what else? U and K trucks?
Railway Rasputin wrote in message <38326840.BB377A6B@fastlink.com.au>...
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>Adrian Whichello wrote:
>> For pole shunting. I think all the cast steel bed locos have it, so it
>> may be more of an American thing. Was it ever actually used here?
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>Dad used the mwhen he was a shunter at Enfield.
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>rgds