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International Railroad Discussion > What gauge did you say to use?Date: 05/06/15 20:21 What gauge did you say to use? Author: cvrrr All shots were taken last May at the National railway Museam of Austraila
   Date: 05/07/15 08:05 Re: What gauge did you say to use? Author: McKey Very interesting set of pictures, thank you!
For how long was the Budd RCD used down there? Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/07/15 08:05 by McKey. Date: 05/07/15 14:14 Re: What gauge did you say to use? Author: cvrrr I believe that the RDC was last used about 12 years ago. I could be wrong. Dave Stark
Date: 05/07/15 20:25 Re: What gauge did you say to use? Author: DKay They used to run Sydney down to Woolongong before that line was fully electrafied.That was about a 100 mile run.Not sure if they ran anywhere else on the NSWGR system.
Regards,DK Date: 05/12/15 23:00 Re: What gauge did you say to use? Author: eminence_grise McKey Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Very interesting set of pictures, thank you! > > For how long was the Budd RCD used down there? I thought the RDC at Port Adelaide was from Western Australia. Until fairly recently, the "Prospector" operated between Perth and Kalgoorlie WA. This was like an updated version of the NH "Roger Williams", modern nose cone on an otherwise conventional RDC. Date: 06/22/15 04:20 Re: What gauge did you say to use? Author: AussieGWAdriver The Budd RDC was imported into South Australia from the USA by the Commonwealth Railways in 1951. It was one of three, These are full size Budd RDC's where as the one's for NSW were built in Australia to NSW's loading gauge. The three in South Australia were all out of service by the end of 1990. CB1 and CB2 are preserved while CB3 was scrapped after a fatal level crossing accident.
More info here. http://www.comrails.com/cr_locos/r_cb.html Cheers, Justin |