QR VASO

QR VASO

Owner - QR
Gross Mass for 'A' and 'S' class lines - 63.0 Tonne
('A' - Mainline - 50 Kg Rail. 'S' - Special Class 63 Kg Rail)
Tare Weight 17.2 Tonne
Cubic Capacity - 55 cubic metres
Overall length - 15.6 metres
Construction - Aluminium Body with Steel U frame end units
Coulper - Automatic Coupler with No Buffers
Discharge Mechanism - Bottom dump doOrs with 'Z' side opening first and closing last.
Year of manufacture - 1982- 1983
Running numbers - 41200 to 41321
Wagon Class - VASO

This type of wagon is used to carry bulk raw sugar from sugar mills in the Burdekin District of North Queensland to Townsville in North Queensland. They were normally used in Block trains of upto 30 wagons.

Used for only the sugar season (July - December), the wagons are stored in Townsville during the off season.

Author: Peter Cook

QR VASO
• config.txt 2.23KB
qr_vaso_art
qr_vaso_art_512.texture.txt 79 bytes
qr_vaso_art_512.tga 1.00MB
qr_vaso_art_icon.texture.txt 81 bytes
qr_vaso_art_icon.tga 16.02KB
qr_vaso_body
black.texture.txt 28 bytes
black.tga 12.04KB
container.texture.txt 32 bytes
container.tga 768.53KB
metal7.jpg 76.46KB
metal7.texture.txt 29 bytes
plateox2.jpg 53.32KB
plateox2.texture.txt 31 bytes
plateox2.tga 128.04KB
qr_vaso_body.pm 405.24KB
qr_vaso_shadow
black.texture.txt 28 bytes
black.tga 12.04KB
container.texture.txt 32 bytes
qr_vaso_shadow.pm 93.71KB