Re: Paint is out - Wrap is in

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David Bennetts <davibenn@pcug.org.au> wrote in message
399f0d15@newshost.pcug.org.au">news:399f0d15@newshost.pcug.org.au...

> With the corporate sector all out to paint locos and
> carriages in distinctive colour schemes, Florida is now
> wrapping their trains (locos and carriages) in Vinyl rather
> than painting them.  Reasons - much quicker to do, doesn't
> require environmental controls that painting does, and it
> comes for less than half the cost.  Durability also is
> there, a seven year lifespan is envisaged.

This has been used in he UK for a while now, since privitisation every TOC
wan'ts its own image, and plasters trains with vinyl accordingly.

> Wonder if the process will catch on in Oz?

The all-over advertising trams in Melbourne use this process extensively.

> http://www.tri-rail.com/Information/Bulletin.htm#TRI-RAIL
> TRAINS TO GET A NEW LOOK.

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