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Of course none of this stops those who just like having fun running 
whatever we like!

Lambing Flat wrote:
> Rule one of posting research information is...... CHECK BEFORE 
> POSTING!!!!   ;-)
> 
> The OHGs listed in the 1963 "Carry Capacity of Goods Wagons" are *not* 
> the same vehicle as the Trainorama model.  The OHGs in the 1963 list are 
> the last of the LHGs that hadn't been converted to auto couplings, (a 
> number retained hooks and screw couplings to facilitate their use on 
> stock trains, as up until the introduction of the (1959)BCWs and BSVs 
> most stock wagons were fitted with hooks and screw couplings)
> 
> The Trainorama OHGs were introduced in 1965 and had all been converted 
> to GHG by 1969.
> 
> In the interests of accuracy I have made a small addition to the list.....
> 
> Goods Guard's vans in service with the NSWR during the 1960s
> 
> Code            In service 1963      In service 1969
>  HG               No entry              2
> BHG               No entry             30
> (SHG with high speed bogies)
> CHG                     90             91
> EHG               No entry              4
> (MHG with power generating equipment)
> FHG               No entry             99
> GHG               No entry             66
> LHG                    140             71
> MHG                    199            195
> OHG                      6           No entry
> (LHG type still fitted with hooks and screw coupling)
> PHG                    235            196
> SHG                     73             27
> 
> Information from "Carry Capacity of Goods Wagons"  March 1963 and May 1969
> 
> Thank you to a certain eagle eyed reader who took great delight in 
> pointing out my mistake..... ;-)  I'm looking forward to returning the 
> favour John...... lol
> 
> 
> James McInerney
> 
> My G gauge garden homage to the now long gone railways of Tasmania's
> west coast, the "Rurr Valley Railway"
> http://www.cia.com.au/bullack/rvrtitle.html
> 
> also http://www.cia.com.au/bullack/ , where the steam era NSWGR
> secondary lines live on in HO at bucolic "Lambing Flat"
> 
> and http://members.optusnet.com.au/lambingflat/ for the family stuff!
> 
>