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 Thread: Vacuum and air brake cylinders |
derekmorton
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 Forum: Australian Miniature Railways Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:42 am Subject: Vacuum and air brake cylinders |
With a little electronic ingenuity, you can have fully electric, graduated application / graduated release brakes.
Now that's an interesting point, but you would need variable torque servo's, and I ... |
| Thread: EDi/EMD 83 Class Locomotives for PN Coal |
derekmorton
Replies: 54
Views: 4013
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Forum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:24 pm Subject: Re: EDi/EMD 83 Class Locomotives for PN Coal |
>Is this similar to the fact that all CSX AC4400CW's (not the new GEVO's!!) >are 435'000 pounds or something to that extent? Somewhat heavier to the >UP or CP AC44's.
One must remember th ... |
| Thread: The T class - Mainline passenger loco?? |
derekmorton
Replies: 24
Views: 1181
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Forum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:49 pm Subject: Re: The T class - Mainline passenger loco?? |
T classes were defined as a branch line loco with a max speed of 100km/h.
Mainline loco's normally have a top speed of 115km/s (some at 130km/h)
To use a T class must have been a desperate move at ... |
| Thread: 92 Class |
derekmorton
Replies: 412
Views: 33863
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Forum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:54 pm Subject: Re: 92 Class |
Has anyone seen tractive effort figures yet?
If it uses the same technology as the 5000 class, my calculations have it at 440nm as against the SCT unit at 500nm. |
| Thread: Payloads |
derekmorton
Replies: 8
Views: 395
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Forum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:23 pm Subject: Re: Payloads |
| 5000 tons |
| Thread: New IP routing to Railpage Australia™ |
derekmorton
Replies: 50
Views: 2093
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Forum: Railpage Australia™ Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:38 pm Subject: Re: New IP routing to Railpage Australia™ |
Tracing route to www.railpage.com.au [202.80.177.38]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms my.router [192.168.0.1]
2 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms 202-154-66-173.peo ... |
| Thread: Lookin For a Vic L Class can someone help please |
derekmorton
Replies: 3
Views: 472
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Forum: MSTS General Discussions Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:18 pm Subject: Re: Lookin For a Vic L Class can someone help please |
| The L class is BACK. |
| Thread: Northern Illawarra v2 Problem |
derekmorton
Replies: 10
Views: 1106
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Forum: MSTS Routes Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:35 pm Subject: Re: Northern Illawarra v2 Problem |
Do you have train store?, if not get it.
Are you running bin? |
| Thread: Emmission Standards - How Much Longer Before? |
derekmorton
Replies: 24
Views: 1073
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Forum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:04 pm Subject: Re: Emmission Standards - How Much Longer Before? |
>The old EMDs use fuel as if it were going out of fashion, but having been >recently overhauled, they are quite reliable and in constant use.
Given that the (old) EMD's are 2 stroke, they wil ... |
| Thread: Emmission Standards - How Much Longer Before? |
derekmorton
Replies: 24
Views: 1073
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Forum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:00 pm Subject: Re: Emmission Standards - How Much Longer Before? |
>Rather than defending the use of such inefficient old loco's how about some
An old loco has to be very bad to pollute more that 200 trucks!!
Was the point I was trying to make. |
| Thread: Emmission Standards - How Much Longer Before? |
derekmorton
Replies: 24
Views: 1073
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Forum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:57 am Subject: Re: Emmission Standards - How Much Longer Before? |
| Keep in mind that each train of containers keeps 200 trucks off the road. |
| Thread: Electifying Sydney-Melbourne |
derekmorton
Replies: 61
Views: 3436
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Forum: Signalling and Infrastructure Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:57 am Subject: Re: Electifying Sydney-Melbourne |
An electrified Sydney-Melbourne rail link could form part of Australia's fight against climate change.
Thats good, and we will use coal fired electricity to run it. 
I must be missing somethi ... |
| Thread: Geelong and Warrnambool line sightings |
derekmorton
Replies: 51
Views: 3317
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Forum: Sightings Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:23 pm Subject: Re: Geelong and Warrnambool line sightings |
[quote="csyjunior"]Must be an old chart /quote]
Does anyone any ruling grade loads for any area? |
| Thread: Ballarat route Activities with moving trains |
derekmorton
Replies: 15
Views: 1080
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Forum: MSTS Routes Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:52 pm Subject: Re: Ballarat route Activities with moving trains |
| Can you try that in english please? |
| Thread: Geelong and Warrnambool line sightings |
derekmorton
Replies: 51
Views: 3317
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Forum: Sightings Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:36 pm Subject: Re: Geelong and Warrnambool line sightings |
X47 down today. Spices tell me X47 has been fitted with Q-Trac. It can now haul the same load as an A class
The chart that I have for Ballan shows the same tonnage for A and X? |
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