Re: Brisbane trams, and "Windsplitters"

Does that mean "petrol-electric"? Or was some equivalent to CNG or
LPG available then? Bruce

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., Bill Bolton <billbolton@c...> wrote:

On Sun, 09 Sep 2001 07:52:01 +1000, I wrote:

If my memory serves me correctly, at least one of the state rail
systems (VR or QR, maybe both?) imported a single McKeen gas-

electric

cars here as part of early experiments with railcars for lightly
trafficed rural braches.

I was nearly right, but it was gas-mechanical, not a gas-

electric....

http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/462.html#1855

"Queensland and Victoria used the petrol-mechanical McKeen Car

(U.S.A.

1911);"

Cheers,

Bill


Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia

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