Re: Melbourne's grey trams

[james_ccj@my-deja.com]

In article <38C7ACDF.C916B533@ozemail.com.au>,
  trainman@ozemail.com.au wrote:
> Brown Family wrote:
>
> > I think the most revolting livery I ever saw was the "Candy Stripe"
> > colour scheme used on NSW locos and carriages. Was there anything
> > worse than this? Was it a vain attempt at making aging rolling stock
> > look more modern?
>
> Candy looked really good on some locos and awful on others.  The 81
>class looked
> great,
Yes! totally agree. Candy also looked good on carriages(personal
opinion), much better then "tuscan" color applied on Countrylink loco
haul fleet.

Candy however not really suitable on 44, 80 and 422, 46.

>the 44 class looked crap.  Box locos looked better than nosed and
>hooded
> locos in candy.  The XPT looked better in candy than blue.
Hard to say.... Candy made XPT looked somewhat shabby, especially the
power car.

Endeavour color looked somewhat dull as well.


> BTW, how can you criticise candy when VLP can't even match the locos
to the
> carriages!!
The V/line orange  pre-1992
or latest V/line red and white? I think the "red and white" is more
suitable on Sprinters then on locos. But after years of V/line orange,
it's time for a change:-)

> David Johnson
> trainman@ozemail.com.au
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
> ------------------------------------
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> official view of State Rail.
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>

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Cheers

James


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