Re: XPT, XPLORER, Endeavour replacement deal to go to market - Rail Express
  Graham Hocking

The wheel controllers i have seen on Swiss valley narrow gauge electric railways, -the ASD, Aigle-Sepey-Les Diablerets as an instance, (BVB was similar) just operate a step by step controller. Since the illustrated vehicle is very obviously a petrol driven motor car conversion this could not possibly apply, it not being electrically powered nor controlled? Brakes at the time were very crude, and would not/could not even remotely possibly be worked from the previous car's steering mechanism.
G.
On 19/08/2017 3:13 PM, Tony Gallowayarg@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
> Indeed Roger, a pertinent question. But, maybe it isn’t as it seems. It could well be a wheel operated throttle/controller fitted to this fine machine, of the sort found on French locomotives and Swiss trams. The large diameter of the wheel is obviously necessary for precise regulation of the enormous power and torque produced by the prime mover - either that, or they hadn’t got around to cutting the damned thing off before the photo was taken.

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>> On 19 Aug 2017, at 1:37 pm, 'Roger Greenwood'efftech@... mailto:efftech@bigpond.com [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@... mailto:TramsDownUnder@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>> Tony Galloway’s post of Aug 17^th included the caption <*/Open wagons are so primitive when there’s a high-tech self propelled option/*> beneath a photo of a primitive open wagon.

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>> But since it runs on rails I’m intrigued to know the function of the steering wheel.

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