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Wow.

Cheers
Arthur

In qrig@yahoogroups.com, G S <kenworth_10x6@...> wrote:
>
> Someone was wondering how QR loco's compare to standard gauge
loco's. Here are some links to show how loco's similar to QR's
Clyde's would compare to American standard gauge loco's. Latin
American Logistics (ALL in Spanish ) run on Brazil's metre gauge
lines using G22's, similar to QR 2400's but on 4 axles, and GT22's
similar to QR 2300's and a tunnel motor design, up to a GT26CU-2,
similar to QR's 2100's but turbo'd so I presume pumping out 3000hp (
also a tunnel design ) as well as a few older GE U models. For cheap
newer power, they have imported secondhand US standard gauge loco's
and unlike their counterparts in the north who convert them to 8 axle
metre gauge loco's, these blokes are simply putting narrow gauge
bogie's under them so must be running to 26 tonne axle loading. The
loco's tower over the NG loco's as well as NG rollingstock. I can
see possibilities for similar things here on certain lines if third
parties wanted to get into
> mineral hauling on the cheap. Yes, they are wider but it doesn't
seem an issue either!
>
> http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=37054
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> http://lbassetti.rrpicturearchives.net/modelList.aspx
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> GMS
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> In memory of
> Mervyn George Simpson
> 3/11/33 - 31/1/08
> " End of the long haul "
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