Re: A Narrow Gauge Brute.
| May 31, 2018 04:57PM |
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I'll take the "noise, smoke and looks good" as well as the "growls".
Ha Ha, I knew someone would understand......
A Ray Mathewson photo [flic.kr] hosted by Chris Bradley, Ray was an old friend of mine, rode my cab a few times too and took wonderful pictures of the storm light available to him after his day job.
Brutes ....
P.S. Dan,
the NZR had the DX listed at 58,000lbs TE continuous, starting effort was more.
A young Driver I was firing for one night back in the 80's got stuck on the Westmere bank. We had a DC+DX two horse load, the DC being a lot lighter and non-turbo'ed, got slippy so he had notched back rather than anticipating and sanding out continuously, thus dropping the Dixi out of its game plan.
I pulled the jumper out and lifted the lot from the cab of the trailing DX, it just dug in and took off on that 1in35 grade. The secret with the Dixi was to sit and build Amps which took a couple of minutes before full power came on and releasing the brakes, something you couldn't do with the GMD DC's.
Ha Ha, I knew someone would understand......
A Ray Mathewson photo [flic.kr] hosted by Chris Bradley, Ray was an old friend of mine, rode my cab a few times too and took wonderful pictures of the storm light available to him after his day job.
Brutes ....
P.S. Dan,
the NZR had the DX listed at 58,000lbs TE continuous, starting effort was more.
A young Driver I was firing for one night back in the 80's got stuck on the Westmere bank. We had a DC+DX two horse load, the DC being a lot lighter and non-turbo'ed, got slippy so he had notched back rather than anticipating and sanding out continuously, thus dropping the Dixi out of its game plan.
I pulled the jumper out and lifted the lot from the cab of the trailing DX, it just dug in and took off on that 1in35 grade. The secret with the Dixi was to sit and build Amps which took a couple of minutes before full power came on and releasing the brakes, something you couldn't do with the GMD DC's.
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