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Re: Melbourne's grey trams

Subject: Re: Melbourne's grey trams
From: "Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:11:54 +1100
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Newsgroups: aus.rail
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David Johnson wrote in message <38C7ACDF.C916B533@ozemail.com.au>...

>Candy looked really good on some locos and awful on others.  The 81 class
looked
>great, the 44 class looked crap.  Box locos looked better than nosed and
hooded
>locos in candy.  The XPT looked better in candy than blue.

Heretic - the Countrylink colour scheme is fantastic - much better looking
than the old red/orange/yellow scheme.

>BTW, how can you criticise candy when VLP can't even match the locos to the
>carriages!!

Yeah, always wondered about this. The carriages look ok, the Splinters look
ok, the locos (apart from the 'N's) look ok, but put locos and cars
together - yecch!.

Dave

References:
- Melbourne's grey trams
  - From: "David Martin" <d_martin@mountains.net.au>
- Re: Melbourne's grey trams
  - From: Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>
- Re: Melbourne's grey trams
  - From: "Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>
- Re: Melbourne's grey trams
  - From: pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)
- Re: Melbourne's grey trams
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>

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