Re: Whats your fav loco?

[Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com>]

> From: Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>
> Organization: .
> Newsgroups: aus.rail
> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 06:57:39 GMT
> Subject: Re: Whats your fav loco?
> 
> The clincher was when I was told that they are made of wood - and sure enough
> the next time I saw one I knocked on a side panel and whaddya know - plyboard!

The side panels of just about any older full width body were made of wood
with a thin sheetmetal covering. The CL's were different, their panels were
made out of some sort of fibreglass, I found this out when taking night
shots of them, the engineroom lights shone through the sides!.

Mark