jetpilot29
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I haven't considered it yet Jetpilot29
:hehe: You didn't doing it but I can see you sitting on jaxonjared's 3801 steam. have a good day cheers.
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I haven't considered it yet Jetpilot29
To Bearcat245
Regarding the 85 & 86 NSWGR Electric Locos, they are excellent for NSW layouts, but have two problems in TS12 as can be seen in the screenshots.
1) Except for the FC 85 all other 85's and the 86 from the DLS and the pack, there is a translucent shadow like shroud covering form cow catcher to cowcatcher over bogie area.
2) The FC 85, the couplers dont attach but they do when attached with an 86.
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Bob
Love the ShotThe old WoyWoy Meat Works as the U Boat heads north to WoyWoy station
Shot at 2012-04-20
To Bearcat245
Regarding the 85 & 86 NSWGR Electric Locos, they are excellent for NSW layouts, but have two problems in TS12 as can be seen in the screenshots.
1) Except for the FC 85 all other 85's and the 86 from the DLS and the pack, there is a translucent shadow like shroud covering form cow catcher to cowcatcher over bogie area.
2) The FC 85, the couplers dont attach but they do when attached with an 86.
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Bob
Axe,
Not sure what I did but ok?
They became known as the U BOATS due to the lettering on their target plates.
The first official regular service with the new cars was the Blue Mountains business service known as “The Fish” on the 15th September 1958 operating as a nine car set which was later increased to a ten car consist. The standard NSW practice for the period was to operate four car sets made up of power car, trailer car, trailer car, power car and eight car sets comprised two four car sets, whilst a ten car set comprised an additional driver car plus trailer car.
The title of “The Fish” for the Blue Mountains service was derived from the nickname of a passenger train driver named Heron who regularly worked on the line. This would also appear to be the reason for the regular service to Emu plains with the ‘The Heron” name board whilst “The Chips” name board appears an appropriate extension of The Chips” denoting the shorter service to Mt Vic in the Blue Mountains.
The Chips Sydney Central, NSW – Mount Victoria, NSW
The Fish Sydney Central, NSW – Lithgow, NSW
The Heron Sydney Central, NSW – Emu Plains, NSW
The U boat sets carried red or dark blue targets which were double sided. The red targets indicated the set could be broken up & carried an “A” or “B” suffix. Thus an eight car set could be broken into two four car sets or a ten car set into one 4 car and one six car set whilst the dark blue targets indicated the set could not be broken up. When introduced there were 9 eight car sets targeted U1 – U9. The remaining eight cars were used as spares. This was changed in 1962 to six eight car sets targets U1 – U6 and 4 six car sets targeted U7 – U10. This was further changed in 1973 when U1 – U10 represented four car sets & U11 – U15 six car sets. In later life, the U Boats appear to have integrated with the double deck interurban fleet and wearing targets such as U45 & U60. All the U BOATS were based at Flemington depot and there were no fixed set. The sets being randomly made up of available cars.
Between 1959 & 1961 seven “EHO” vans were modified to work with interurban sets to provide additional parcel & luggage space. A further van was converted in 1969 coded “IHO”. These vans could be seen on electric services to Lithgow and Gosford, as well as attached to railcar services between Gosford & Newcastle.