Re: GM 1 on the move.
Chris Drymalik (gcoscpd@msgw.systems.sa.gov.au)
13 Oct 1997 01:28:51 GMT
In article <60n8hd$fmg@internal.sa.gov.au>,
gcoscpd@msgw.systems.sa.gov.au says...
>
>In article <60n619$t1a$2@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>,
>telljb@ozemail.com.au says...
>>
>>I was advised from a reliable source that GM1 trailing DL46 was
>>on a light engine move from Port Augusta to Whyalla today.
>>
>>Very Interesting.!!!! Perhaps we have not seen the last of this
>>Oz record setter yet.
>>
>>Does anybody down in the land of the CROWS (on yah! crows) have
>>further information.?
>>
>Rumour: (this is about two months old)
>GM1 was supposed to be being rebuilt at Port Augusta to re-enter
service. It
>was supposedly being paid for by the Federal Government and would be
in the
>Commonwealth Railways livery. It has been fitted with motors recovered
from
>a later series engine that had been condemned so I have no idea what
it's
>power ratio now is.
>
>The rumour also stated that it would re-enter service shortly, so now
is
>probabily about right for a trial trip.
>
>--
>Chris Drymalik I speak for myself, not my employeer.
>
>EDS AAIPC Email: FZCTS5@eds.sa.gov.au
>South Australia Phone: +61 8 8301 5357 Fax: +61 8 8301 5757
>
--
Chris Drymalik I speak for myself, not my employeer.
EDS AAIPC Email: FZCTS5@eds.sa.gov.au
South Australia Phone: +61 8 8301 5357 Fax: +61 8 8301 5757