Western Australian Locomotives - Ugl Rail C44aci (Paperback)

Chapters: Ugl Rail C44aci. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The C44aci is a model of Australian heavy duty diesel electric locomotive designed and built by UGL Rail and operated by a number of local rail freight operators. They have a Co-Co wheel arrangement and are based around a GE Transportation Systems prime mover and traction equipment. Units owned by Pacific National are known as the 92 class, those by Australian Railroad Group are the AC class, and those with QRNational are the 6000 class. Only small differences occur between the classes, with the ARG units bearing the model number C43aci. 10 units are also on order for Xstrata Coal. The C44aci was designed by UGR to meet a tender issued by Pacific National, who required a locomotive to match the performance of their existing 90 class units when hauling heavy coal traffic, while still having the ability to work high speed intermodal services, with the change between applications to be simple. The existing UGR Cv40-9i (NR class) locomotive design was used as a base, but with alterations including: The NR class design had also been used by UGR as a basis for the AC traction 5000 class used for coal haulage by QRNational. This design did not meet the requirements for Pacific National due to the heavy axle load, acceptable on the heavily laid coal routes, but not on the interstate mainline. To reduce the weight the level of fuel carried is altered: for intermodal applications the fuel level is 7300 litres, for coal applications that permit higher axle loads the fuel level is increased 13500 litres, with an intermediate fuel level of 10750 litres also available. These limits are enforced during refuelling by a float switch in the tank, the permitted level being set by a key switch with an in...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2086068