Gday Greg

A modern Scrubber, about time

Like you said, all Oz systems should kick in and buy one

Cheers, Mick

On 19/07/2017 9:05 AM,transitclassics@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> You have touched on a subject that is close to what I call a heart!! Rail grinding, for some reason, since the 90's, our tramways have had this aversion to rail grinders and scrubbers, Melbourne couldn't wait to get rid of them, I suspect that part of that reasoning came from the operator of 11W who refused to grind saying it made to much dust and would only run water!! After the cars were stored, I got management to allow me to demonstrate that they are effective when I took several (who shall remain nameless as they may still be there) managers out and scrubbed the Port Line, their their amazement, they had never seen results like I was able to produce with little effort! But they were still determined to use a truck which has proved to be totally useless.

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> Now we also have the Gold Coast, Sydney and Adelaide who are or will be suffering the effects of corrugated rail. I have long argued that we use two Z1's with the inner end cabs remove d, permanently coupled and the inner trucks used for scrubbing (all functions of those trucks other than track brakes would remain) but this has repeatedly fallen on deaf ears.

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> In Europe, system there are well aware of these problems and have purpose built scrubbers and grinders that do a fantastic job. A friend, just back from Helsinki has sent me photos and a link to the manufacturer. Why on earth can't we get something like this. for the price of about one passenger tram, you could save a crap load on rail replacement, let along the noise!! Even if one was bought between all the operators and sent when needed. Anyway, here's the link:

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> http://www.windhoff.de/index.php/fahrzeuge/rail-grinding-maintenance-vehicles/?lang=en

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> Greg

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