Re: GM27 sighting

[David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>]

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alan holding wrote:

> Aus loco discussion mailing listIn reply to RussellThank you for the
> LIVERY reference in your report to Ausloco re GM27 out on "Pleurisy
> Plains".My "whacky crusade" about LIVERIES versus paintjobs is being
> noticed I see! Image is important, particularly with todays Railway
> Companies struggling to overcome the stranglehold that road transport
> has on the freight task in Australia. Road transport Companies are not
> frightened to display their chosen LIVERY as graphically as possible
> and with obvious image & business success. Rail must also...My "Whacky
> crusade" will not rest...  (Tiresome aren't I?)

No, not a bit of it. You only have to look around at weekends to see
truck drivers crawling all over their vehicles washing and polishing
every last bit of metal to see the sort of attitude to image they have.
Whilst I'm not suggesting that train drivers to the same thing, a
smartening up of the companies livery (yes I love silver trucks too) to
facilitate the PR would not go amiss. Nothing looks smarter than to see
a train of, say, freshly painted (or even cleaned) grain wagons being
hauled by equally clean locos. Makes every one sit up and take notice.

David.


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