Re: Bogie Goods Vans on NR Freight

["Lindsay Hope" <enpolmon@chariot.net.au>]

some bogey goods wagons originate from Whyalla and may contain steel
sleepers.
Lindsay Hope, B/water


Brian Dunn <bdunn@pcug.org.au> wrote in message
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>
> Felicitations to you all
>
>  I couldn't help but notice an Up SG goods some 10kms south of Wodonga
this
> afternoon (Sun, 3:30 pm I recall). Wodonga Victoria that is.
>
> It was a lengthy steel train hauled by 3 NR diseasles of some description
> (NR+NR+BL).  The only thing of note, to this bored correspondant, was the
> inclusion of 3 or 4 bogie covered goods vans towards the rear of the
train.
>  A real goods train at last!
>
> Oops! I forgot, we're all pretend Yanks now: we've forgotten our heritage
> and it appears almost mandatory to borrow railway terms from the US.  It
> was rewarding to read in a message on radio frequencies, reference to the
> "four foot", a pleasingly traditional Anglo-Australian railway term.
>
> kind railway regards
>
> Brian