This ranks as largest and most powerful passenger engine in Australasia; introduced with view to obviating double heading on interstate expresses and shortening running time of these trains between Melbourne and Albury; recently completed at workshops of Victorian Railways at Newport, Melbourne; hand-operated shaker or rocker grate with front drop grate is fitted, each side of grate being operated separately; engine frames are of caststeel bar type with forged-steel extension pieces bolted in. (See also Ry. Gaz vol. 48, no. 26, June 29, 1928 pp. 878-879, 2 figs)
New three-cylinder Pacific locomotive, Victorian railways
Modern Transport
Modern Transport ; 19 , n 480
1928
2 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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