421's spotted at Cassino
Cassino
A Northern Rivers Railroad 421 Class (42109) locomotive resplendent in its
bright livery, straight from the shops, was observed running around the
Cassino area on the evening of the 24th of February. It was seen
continually travelling from the Bruxner Highway, passed the old ballast
sidings, over the Richmond River, through the station, passed the coal
stage, and across over the level crossing north of Cassino and back again.
Word is that it passed its light engine trial with flying colours and was
also seen on one occasion with a match wagon and a string of old V/Line
louvre vans normally reserved for newsprint traffic. The chief mechanical
engineer was said to be delighted with the loco. There have been reports of
the clearance on the front and rear pilots and the fuel tank being somewhat
limited and due to the rather dodgey track in some sidings in this neck of
the woods, the loco has been heard scrapping on the rails at these
locations. 42104 still in the reverse colour scheme was also seen sitting
in the back platform road at Cassino. A local resident stated that both
locos were believed to have been purchased by the Cassino Rollingstock And
Industrial Group’s Railway.
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Craig Mackie alias cassino
Email:- cas...@powerup.com.au
NSW North Coast HO Modeller
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b_za...@my-deja.com
going on? A match wagon! Aren't these locos supposed to be supplied
with Kadee type couplers?
Bernie
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Before you buy.
Werris Creek
42109 certainly covered a bit of territory on Friday night as it was also
seen that evening passing through Werris Creek on load trials. The NRR paint
scheme looked a bit out of place amongst the other members of the class also
working through the Creek. Whilst the train controller did not keep a full
record of loco numbers he suspects that pretty close to the entire class
visited the Creek on Friday night.
Loco fitters also confirm your reports of tight clearances on the pilots and
fuel tanks and this has been given a bit of attention.
All locos were given a full workout on numerous workings on the timetable
and passed with flying colours.
Regards
Werris
Lambing Flat
Werris Creek wrote:
> Loco fitters also confirm your reports of tight clearances on the pilots and
> fuel tanks
Apparently one of the problems is caused by a little section sticking out on
both sides of end of the bottom of the fuel tank that was put there by the
Chinese toolmaker for reasons known only to himself!
The tight clearances and fouling on poorly laid track is one of the tradeoffs
for the improved appearances and scale fidelity that we modellers now demand
from our manufacturers. Looks like we have demanded that the manufacturers
"lift their game" and overlooked the fact that some of us are also going to have
to "lift our game" to accommodate the improved models we now receive!
I find this quite amusing!
DPC James McInerney
STOP! In The Name Of The Lore!
At http://www.cia.com.au/bullack/ , "Lambing Flat's" mainpage for the HO model
and NSWGR information.
Or http://www.cia.com.au/bullack/rvrtitle.html for the "Rurr Valley Railway",
my G gauge garden line
Werris Creek
Lambing Flat wrote
<snip>
>The tight clearances and fouling on poorly laid track is one of the
tradeoffs
>for the improved appearances and scale fidelity that we modellers now
demand
>from our manufacturers. Looks like we have demanded that the manufacturers
>"lift their game" and overlooked the fact that some of us are also going to
have
>to "lift our game" to accommodate the improved models we now receive!
James as usual you are right, (now theres a lead in for someone)
Almost the entire class ran trouble free over the entire length of the Creek
before coming to grief with a loud thud on the same point where a
combination of tight tolerances on the loco and a slightly high point blade
was enough to cause trouble. A bit of work by the per way gang and loco
fitters fixed both problems.
Roll on improved appearances and scale fidelity.
>I find this quite amusing!
The per way gang and loco fitters working in the February heat didn't.
Werris
bf0...@hotmail.com
still suffering the effects of the WWII battle there, subsidence in the
old craters is causing the track to have undulations that our NSW
locomotives don't like.
As for match wagons - they are necessary as Italy uses screw couplings
(I think).
All perfectly normal. Now how did these units get to Italy so
quickly? :-)
Brett
In article <8979d3$jea$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
b_za...@my-deja.com
"Werris Creek" <werri...@bigpond.com.au> wrote:
>
> Lambing Flat wrote
>
> <snip>
>
> >The tight clearances and fouling on poorly laid track is one of the
> tradeoffs
> >for the improved appearances and scale fidelity that we modellers now
> demand
> >from our manufacturers. Looks like we have demanded that the
manufacturers
> >"lift their game" and overlooked the fact that some of us are also
going to
> have
> >to "lift our game" to accommodate the improved models we now receive!
>
> James as usual you are right, (now theres a lead in for someone)
>
Bernie
> Almost the entire class ran trouble free over the entire length of
the Creek
> before coming to grief with a loud thud on the same point where a
> combination of tight tolerances on the loco and a slightly high point
blade
> was enough to cause trouble. A bit of work by the per way gang and
loco
> fitters fixed both problems.
>
> Roll on improved appearances and scale fidelity.
>
> >I find this quite amusing!
>
> The per way gang and loco fitters working in the February heat didn't.
>
> Werris
>
>