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Looking Back... Tas - a comparison!

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ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Oh how the times have changed!</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">The 1502 and 1460 class were always pretty popular on the QGR as the "Clydes" could always be relied upon to get you there. And no one ever thought of air conditioning back then - try that in FNQ in the wet season, or out west in 35 degrees plus, or slogging up the Toowoomba Range with a full load on a hot summers day for an hour and a half in 8 notch! Yep, QR crews still carried their canvas water bags hanging on the side of diesel cab windows for that very reason.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Noise - yes, QR drivers will tell you they were louder than the Poms, and they certainly vibrated more when working hard, and they ride rougher - but I never heard a driver complain about it back then. How OH&amp;S has changed the world we work in!</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">I remember riding in the cab of 1461 (Gold "Centenial") one afternoon / evening from Chinchilla to Toowoomba with a 700 plus ton train and the driver and fireman hanging the radio out the window with the aerial up trying to listen to the results of the races! Needless to say, I was busy working my passage as there was a few bob hanging on some of those horses in far distant places! There was plenty of noise that trip with all the unattended crossing loops to work through. If you ever reckon the engine was noisy when working hard, what about the No. 6 Westinghouse - now, that rushing air was noisy in the cab, and drowned&nbsp; out everything. That's something they should have done something about long ago, but it just went with the job.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Thats the way it used to be done every day with diesels back then, no earplugs, no stereo CD, no air conditioner - that's looking back! In fact, I would reckon if you look around there are still quite a few diesels in service today that haven't changed much from those days -GM's, 48 class???</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Keep up the looking back series - brings back many memories. Might have to get some of my old notebooks out and add a bit more.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Rob Bushby,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Queenstown, Tas., 7467.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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