Re: Steamrail should be renamed VR

["Rod Young" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

> > The early 80's
> > still saw many services operated by carriages built 60 year ago,
Werribee
> > services operated by a W class or at best a Y class (with PL cars),
>
> Actually the W's on the Werribee passes finished quite a bit earlier than
> the early 80's. I'm thinking mid to early 70'sperhaps even earlier.
>
> Mark
>
was stationed at Dynon about 1974, and only W I saw was on the SG turntable
. and it always had flat batteries. Never trained in them, and cannot
remember ever seeing one at Brooklyn after the infamous collision with a Y
about that time...Plenty of shifts on F Class though!
Even ran two of them for a short time at Wodonga. Every Werribee and Sunbury
Pass I ran in those days was Y or a flat top T.........
I did drive a W once in about 1990 from the Loco Shed at Newport to 707
operations. The only reason I got there was that it was running, a quick
practice on how to make it move, and a very quick move across to Spotswood.
No one from 707 operations were not there to meet me, and as it shut down,
when I arrived, I secured it and went back to Dynon on a spark. Next day the
Boss asked me into his Office, wanting to know how I got it there, as it
could not be started, and had been sabotaged by persons unknown by cutting
the fuel lines...talk about the smell of an oily rag...
;o)

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