NREC Locos for Qube?

Locos and Wagons are currently being offloaded.

Wagons coming off first, then locos to follow.

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NREC had a video clip which included the mating of the cab to the frame of the Australian units on their stand at Ausrail today.

They confirmed that the locomotive used an EMD 645E3 engine rated at 3000 HP input to the generator and their current N-Force control system.

The "Verandah" roof was attributed to meeting the stringent NSW sound standards.

They also indicated that the two genset locomotives discussed earlier would still be tested in Australia.

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Im ignorant of the NSW sound requirement . what does this encompass ?

What is it that requires "odd" verandah solutions. No other loco has this.

seems strange

SQDY 00091Q at Carrington today. Looks like a new build to me.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/efb5800/6387436607/

And 1101 being lifted of the boat. Not much to see today and not the weather for it.

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Re the SQDY's - looks like shunter's steps that cant be used for riding on in NSW, and a handbrake that will be wiped out by the first lazy container forklift driver that misses the mark when loading the flat top - good research guys, what a great design!  

American to be precise

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Photo by Brad Coulter

I can live with that.

Except maybe for all those exhaust stacks

Qube 1103?

How many locomotives are in the shipment?

Reportedly 12 locomotives

Hmmmmm, have you seen a VQOF?

Regardless as to if monday has or has not seen a VQOF or not, he's a respected member here who doesn't act like he's seen it all and done it all, so I'm inclined to respect his point of view over... other peoples.

Can anyone else confirm the total number of locomotives they have sighted?

sighted 2 loco's at broadmeadow yards today 1 uncovered and 1 still wrapped.

Havew footage of Qube 1103 with assistance of GL106 leaving Broadmeadow yards through Adamstown heading towards Kotara around 1515.

Railcorp Waiver only covers 1101 to 1108, so maybe only 8 at this stage.

Well at least they have part of a nose. The US version of our silly safety cab.

I am looking at Waiver 11311 of 22/11 and that only covers 2

Is there another Waiver out there?

Only 1101 and 1103 on this shippment.

This is exciting!

Does anybody have any idea if the NREC locos were built on new frames or re-cycled frames from a SD series locomotive?

As for the comment on the hand brake, the Yanks use this type of hand brake on all their container cars without any problems. It is probably about time we adopted standardised hand brake locations, unlike the non standard placements we have now.

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Thanks for posting the vid.  

The mechanicals of these units are basically SD40

An SD40 weighs approx 167 tonnes, admittedly with heavy US cast bogies

I had a look at GP frames and weights (the Latin American's prefer to convert GP frames to C-C on account of the lighter frame weight) but at 20.22 meters the Qube locos are probably on new frames

A photo of the build plate will help, it will have NREC's model classification

With NREC (non genset) works numbers, the first block of 3 numbers is the order/job number (and also drawing/arrangement number). When NREC recycle a job number it is generally an indication that the loco is a copy or variation of a previous order (not a new design). second 4 numbers (mm/yy) is month/year completed, last block numbers the sequence of the loco within the batch or order. There is a NREC list of sorts circulating, so we can compare the job number to see if it is recycled