Ingenious braking [Was: XPT, XPLORER, Endeavour replacement deal to go to market - Rail Express]
  Mal Rowe

On 19/08/2017 5:20 PM, Graham Hockingpf4366@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> Brakes at the time were very crude, and would not/could not even remotely possibly be worked from the previous car's steering mechanism.

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And yet, that looks to be exactly what has been done.
If you follow down the line of the steering wheel shaft, there's a set of chains adjacent to the end of the shaft.
http://tdu.to/245193/0/13435384_1153017751427770_7043541229797829268_n.jpg
As they are not needed for steering, I reckon they can only be part of the brake rigging.
They would apply the visible shoe brakes to the wheel tread.

Ingenious - and a bit odd.

Mal Rowe