Re: [VIC] Silver DRC :-)

["John Wayman" <trecker@optusnet.com.au>]

No, Alco's were the next best thing to a steam engine, you could still open
the windows and get covered with grime, and see smoke billowing past as you
travelled along. They sound drooly too!

Cheers
John Wayman

"Mark Bau" <markbau@altavista.com> wrote in message
news:B53C4064.E8E2%markbau@altavista.com...
>
>
> > From: "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>
> > Organization: Another Optus Customer
> > Newsgroups: aus.rail
> > Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 14:15:49 GMT
> > Subject: Re: [VIC] Silver DRC :-)
> >
> > That is right - our Tagaras work, yours doesn't, we sent the one that
was
> > packed with the unreliable equipment.
>
> But Victoria got the last laugh. We dieselised with EMD's, NSW fell for
the
> ALCO rubbish.
>
> Mark
>