Re: Orange, 22/11/99

[Don Allitt <nahgfa@zeta.org.au>]

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I agree  with your last Question it is absolutely stupid.
Don.

Peter Donaghy wrote:

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> A busy evening in Orange yesterday evening:
>
> 8249 / 8164 / 4897 / 48135 / 48128 with an empty ballast to Dubbo,
> departed Orange, 1735.  Luckily I'd seen a few snippets from the recent
> Bathurst car races: this held me in good stead as I weaved through
> Orange's evening peak, watching road traffic whilst sighting /
> memorising loco numbers.  Thank goodness for LARGE PRINT locos.
>
> Train 1877 onto the Parkes line, 1855.  I caught a snippet of
> conversation with Control on the scanner, and thought it was Eastbound;
> rushed trackside, then heard control sight train complete, so thought
> I'd missed it.  I then broke Railfan Rule #1: "NEVER leave the scene
> when a train is in the vicinity", and paid the penalty.  As I got home,
> I heard it run past, Westbound!!!
>
> 8147 / 8110 / 8146 / 6 manildra hoppers / tank / 26 old grain hoppers,
> ex West (train 8176), 2028.
>
> 48102 / 48145 / 48104 / 6 container flats / 15 tanks, ex Dubbo (train
> 8136), 2108
>
> NR52 / NR116 / motorail / 22 carriages, WL1 Indian Pacific, west-bound,
> departed Orange 2130.
>
> Apart from the "Pizza", or "Turtle", or whatever you like to call NR52,
> and the "V/LINE-wannabee" NR116, all were blue boxes.  What
> unimaginative people ever designed such locos, and worse still, who
> picked that colour scheme?  Oh, for some Bulldogs, even if they ARE all
> green!  And what sort of state allocates the same number series to their
> trains as they do to their locos?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Donaghy
> Manager, Orange laboratory
> ph. (02) 6363 1722
> fax (02) 6363 1189
>
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