LOL I'm on it mate,just let us know where & when. What I would like to see Alex is the 3265 restoration at Eveleigh (3801 Limited workshops),can you get us into those workshops?
Hey, DL44 is nearly the same shape as a Bachmann F40! Closer to that than an EMD one anyhow! Nose mounted horn is a cool feature.
LOL I'm on it mate,just let us know where & when. What I would like to see Alex is the 3265 restoration at Eveleigh (3801 Limited workshops),can you get us into those workshops? </font>[/QUOTE]Where? well where ever we want to go when? obviously when Flash is in Sydney I can get you in there no probs (with snr's help) but hate to be the one to break it to you - the 3265 restoration project has been cancelled due to cancellation of Govt funding
2 more pics 3 GM90 class locos on loaded coal at Sandgate near Newcastle. GM22 at Leightonfield, Sydney This locomotive is now owned by Southern Shorthaul Railway (SSR) and is painted yellow and black
Impressive coal train - and unusual shaped hoppers! Unusual place for a five-chime set of horns on #22
Triple 90's = 10290t the coal hoppers were built in the early 90's with a gross weight of 120t with a streamlined look to carry the max amount of coal in our limited loading guage. They are bar coupled in rakes of 7 for the early versions and 8 for the later versions. Unfortunately due to a number of reasons Pacific National no longer runs 10,000t trains preferring to run more smaller trains. In my opinion the crews have not learned how to move long heavy trains - it's an art and if you have seen some of these trains start off - it is no surprise the couplers were snapping. This country has always put it's horns up the front. Oh the GM's (I think Victoria's S class) were the first locomotives in the world to be built with C trucks instead of A-1-A trucks - Australia's little claim to fame in the railway world
mmmm no not really, the GM (actualy class name) was originally owned by Commonwealth Raliways (Sth Aust) so loading guage has never been a problem for these locos, the victorian S class (same loco design) has roof mounted horns. I'm guessing here but in Aust we always seem to have our horns on the front of the loco (unlike say the C44-9 which is roof mounted halfway down the locomotive) in fact the 47 class (the little loco in Paul's shot) has 2 sets of horns depending on direction of travel alot of NSW cab locos have the horn indented into the roof above the cab so it depends on the loco and the design
Gee, that was a conversation stopper, eh oh well it was a boring job anyway - should have taken my camera though saw quite a few freights on my travels through the Sydney Metropolitan network
Still trying to understand it - good job I don't drive your trains You mean you don't always take your camera?
I'll have to find a CityRail map so yo canunderstand the places and how they fit together. You may notice the letters in brackets ie (B) next to 17-D this refers to a line when there is more than one way to get there in this case Bankstown. The others are A = Airport, G = Granville and T = Tempe for this diagram others we have are R = Regents Park, M = Hornsby via Strathfield, SH = Hornsby via the nth shore (over the Harbour Bridge) I'll try and find that map so I can give you a better explanation
Still looking for a map, in the meantime http://www.cityrail.nsw.gov.au/ and follow the links to network maps
