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Re: sliping and sliding and sparking...wait? sparking?

Unread postby Ericmopar » Tue May 20, 2014 4:32 am

So who gets fired for that? The person calculating the tonnage, or the engineer? Conductor?
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Re: sliping and sliding and sparking...wait? sparking?

Unread postby fraserm » Tue May 20, 2014 10:42 am

Mike (or anyone...) - what is that double-headed carbody thingy behind the lead? I've never seen one of those. !*don-know!*
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Re: sliping and sliding and sparking...wait? sparking?

Unread postby evafan002 » Wed May 21, 2014 2:03 am

fraserm wrote:Mike (or anyone...) - what is that double-headed carbody thingy behind the lead? I've never seen one of those. !*don-know!*
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that my friend is a Victorian railways b class diesel based on older Gm products but built in Australia under license by clyde engineering back in the mid 50s iirc
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Re: sliping and sliding and sparking...wait? sparking?

Unread postby ErikGorbiHamilton » Wed May 21, 2014 9:16 am

evafan002 wrote:
fraserm wrote:Mike (or anyone...) - what is that double-headed carbody thingy behind the lead? I've never seen one of those. !*don-know!*
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that my friend is a Victorian railways b class diesel based on older Gm products but built in Australia under license by clyde engineering back in the mid 50s iirc

Otherwise its a E unit.
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Re: sliping and sliding and sparking...wait? sparking?

Unread postby evafan002 » Wed May 21, 2014 5:55 pm

BNOV2 wrote:
evafan002 wrote:
fraserm wrote:Mike (or anyone...) - what is that double-headed carbody thingy behind the lead? I've never seen one of those. !*don-know!*
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that my friend is a Victorian railways b class diesel based on older Gm products but built in Australia under license by clyde engineering back in the mid 50s iirc

Otherwise its a E unit.

the iirc was regarding the build date not the loco type or who built it I am sorry I guess I should have made myself clearer on that point although I should add that what on earth a B class is doing in New South Wales i have no idea
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Re: sliping and sliding and sparking...wait? sparking?

Unread postby ErikGorbiHamilton » Wed May 21, 2014 9:15 pm

evafan002 wrote:
BNOV2 wrote:
evafan002 wrote:
fraserm wrote:Mike (or anyone...) - what is that double-headed carbody thingy behind the lead? I've never seen one of those. !*don-know!*
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that my friend is a Victorian railways b class diesel based on older Gm products but built in Australia under license by clyde engineering back in the mid 50s iirc

Otherwise its a E unit.

the iirc was regarding the build date not the loco type or who built it I am sorry I guess I should have made myself clearer on that point although I should add that what on earth a B class is doing in New South Wales i have no idea

I knew it was a B class from other videos from Australia. I was pointing out to those who didn't know.

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Re: sliping and sliding and sparking...wait? sparking?

Unread postby BNSFdude » Wed May 21, 2014 9:59 pm

B classes are different from E units though. i think they had C-C instead of A1A-A1A and the obvious external differences.
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Re: sliping and sliding and sparking...wait? sparking?

Unread postby fraserm » Thu May 22, 2014 8:49 am

evafan002 wrote:
fraserm wrote:Mike (or anyone...) - what is that double-headed carbody thingy behind the lead? I've never seen one of those. !*don-know!*
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that my friend is a Victorian railways b class diesel based on older Gm products but built in Australia under license by clyde engineering back in the mid 50s iirc

Thanks for that! You are correct, sir. The picture in this Wiki entry is the same unit, B74:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Railways_B_class_%28diesel%29
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Re: sliping and sliding and sparking...wait? sparking?

Unread postby Chacal » Thu May 22, 2014 11:14 am

Almost related: I thought North American train fans were crazy, but they've got nothing on this guy:

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