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RedtailFox — D9 type B-B at Cowra
Published: 2010-03-24 00:51:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 573; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 16
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Here is D9, a B-B Diesel electric built in 1956 for 'Australian Iron & Steel' as an industrial locomotive.Power unit: English Electric 6SRKT
Traction Horsepower: 378 (282 kW)
Starting Tractive effort: 42,000lb (187 kN)
Continuous Tractive effort: 13,600lb (60kN at 9.8km/h)
Total weight: 60 Tons (61t)
Gauge: 1435mm (4 foot 8 1/2 inch)
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Comments: 10
What's that on the front? it looks like a jet engine intake
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That is a cooling fan intake. This locomotive class were designed to work around the Steel mills belonging to 'Australian Iron & Steel' and this was the manufacturers attempt at providing enough cooling for such workings.
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December 09, not long after Christmas.
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Same as the others then...
That seems so long ago now.
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indeed it does. I have to get back down that way again.
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that and a number of other train related places
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