Re: Freight Corp allotments

["Andrew Tailby" <atailby@mpx.com.au>]

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yes i do agree with you as it would be a shame to see all the old mark 1's
gone to scrap or stuffed as you put it
andrew
> >Sorry, Melanie, I din't ask that question as it would have been academic
> >anyway.
> Seems to me that the more we preserve, the better off we will be in the
long
> run. As this was a good unit, I am sure that a good home would have been
> found for it somewhere, provided that the usual guarantees were given re
> commercial use after "preservation".
> Seems better to preserve an intact unit than to "stuff & mount" a shell in
a
> park as was proposed with 4830. Must ask what the progress is on this,
too.
> Any further developements re 4203 as previously posted? Would look good in
> my back yard even thought it is a GM! That'll get 'em going, me thinks.
Got
> room for an Alco also.
> Regards
> Ivar
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: kak 015 [SMTP:kak015@hotmail.com]
> >Sent: Sunday, 27 February, 2000 11:21 AM
> >To: ausloco@listbot.com
> >Subject: Freight Corp allotments
> >
> >.......
> >Listed as Stored Lithgow : 4842. This unit was previously Lithgow yard
> >shunter, but I am told that it has been relieved of its traction motors
and
> >electrical cabinet to repair fire damaged 48110, so 4842 will probably
not
> >be restored to traffic or preserved as was the plan. A pity, because it
> >still has a reasonably good paint job and was the only 48 class I have
had
> >a
> >cab ride in (Christmas Day 1997 from memory).
> >........
> >Regards
> >Ivar
> >
> >
> >
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