RE: GNR GMs
Stuart Turnbull (stuartt@netspace.net.au)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:23:52 +1000 (EST)
At 22:33 28/06/99 +1000, you wrote:
>At 08:56 26/06/99 +1000, you wrote:
>>
>>> Lookout for GM27 as third unit on tonight's 6MA3 . GM22 believed to be
>>> heading for SA on next week's 6MA3.
>>> Bob
>>
>>MA3/9755 was through Gheringhap 42 minutes early at 0138 with
>>CLP12+CLP13+T381(Great Northern) and 35 wagons.
>>I would think that T381 would be changing over with GM27 which was reported
>>as going West in Bob posting.
>>
>Yep, last weekend the Maroona Ballast had T381 on the esat end and GM 22 on
>the west end. So the little T haul the loadeds out and the bigger GM hauls
>the empties back.
Not so. It's a "non-locotrol" push-pull operation. I saw the two ASR GMs
depart Maroona a couple of weeks ago, both crewed with the rear one shoving
hard!!
Cheers
Stuart
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