Re: We Deliver (was 108E)

["Lindsay Lucas" <lusty_chant@hotmail.com>]

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Hoges wrote:

>
>At least Loco "108E" was sort of recognisable.
>
>Some years ago, some pranksters at the RTM temporarily renumbered 3001T as
>3801 (brass cabside numbers and all),

<snip>

>
>Everyone thought it was a great joke, but it backfired. A few months later,
>the former Sydney newspaper "The Sun" carried an article about railways,
>and included a reference to the Newcastle Flyer and "famous locomotive
>3801."  You guessed it, the accompanying photo was a cabside shot of the
>renumbered 3001T!

IIR, the shot was almost head-on, and featured the '0' modified with chalk 
on the buffer beam.
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