Re: Whats your fav diseasel oco?

[Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com>]

> From: Yuri <steam5me@dingoblue.net.au>
> Organization: Another Optus Customer
> Reply-To: steam5me@dingoblue.net.au
> Newsgroups: aus.rail
> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 16:09:30 GMT
> Subject: Re: Whats your fav diseasel oco?
> 
> Referring to diseasel only................
> 
> Yep.  
> 
> C class on Ingliston.
> 
> Lay down misere. 
> 
> No question.
> 
> The C class simply oozed raw horsepower, their rugged looks
> beautiful.... like a Bull Terrier is beautiful <g!>; yes, I know they
> vibrated and they were hot in summer, cold in winter, the hot plates
> didn't work.  Several of my clients were VR/VLine drivers and had a
> love/hate relationship with them - all said they output 3000 very big
> horses (I think Rod Young will confirm).  Whenever they departed
> Sunshine, my whole clinic shook as they notched up over Anderson Road,
> and coming in you'd hear the dynamics screaming from about Ardeer.  I
> cabrode once from Sunshine to Ballarat - an amazing and cherished
> memory.
> 
> Simply ecstatic/orgasmic  (and before you ask, I have three kids so I
> know the difference <g!>).
> 
> I thought they'd last forever, so I'd drive up to Bank Box on a Sat
> afternoon and just sit there and listen and watch "run 8" at 15km/h.
> No photos, no video, no audio.  It'd be almost dark in June when the
> looong evening Adelaide jet went up the Hill.
> 
> Working about 50m from the Anderson Road crossing, I've heard 'em all
> since '73 - B, S, X, C, G, BL.....I like bulldogs, but the ground
> trembling turbo GMs do it for me every time (in 2000 it's the A class
> on the 1719 down Bacchus Marsh through the gates at 1737).
> 
> I wonder if NR would sell me a working C class?
> 
> I am so looking forward to going up to Heathcote Junction to listen to
> the Ls work up the grade there.  1980 in 2000.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Yuri
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Yuri,

After reading your post on the C's I'd like to make you jealous. 2 weeks ago
I went over to the Helper/Soldier Summit area. The first train I caught was
a loaded Utah Railway coal train. 2.2% grade, 15,000 ton train, 4 plain old
SD40-2's on the point 5 SD40-2's and a F45 in the middle of the train, all
howling their guts out with the sound bouncing off the high canyon walls, it
was like a quadrophonic performance. I'd forgotten how good the old Sd40's
sounded now that all I hear are the muffled SD70's and later and all of the
GE's. It was a grand experience.

As a fireman then driver the C's were without a doubt my favorite loco. I
got to work on them when they were still quite new, hotplates always worked,
heaters ok. They were an amazing loco. My only regret is that I never got to
run them at 115KPH, when I left Ararat the max speed was still 80KPH for
them.