Re: Freight Australia loses anothe Engine on the Oaklands Track??

["Rod [comtrain]" <Comtrain@optusnet.com.au>]

"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Rod [comtrain]" <Comtrain@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> > As I am writing another Drama unfolds for Freight Australia and its
Crews!
> > On the Riverina Highway, about 100 km's from Wodonga, the daily wheat
> > Service has come to grief when a Semi trailer apparently ignored the
signs
> > and Drove in front...again!
> > According to the scanner, I am listening to, the Locomotive is on fire,
> > derailed [we think he said on its side, and many wagons have turned over
as
> > well], The Highway is closed untill further notice. Ambulance and SES
Rescue
> > crews are either there or soon to arrive. The Coroner has been notified,
so
> > things do not look very good at all.
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> Hopefully unneccessarily, but if so, for the the trucker, not the train
crew.
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Page3 THE BORDER MAIL Sat Nov.11 2000

   TRUCK DRIVER IN NEAR MISS
   A WHEAT truck driver was lucky to survive when his truck collided with a
wheat train near Rennie yesterday.
   The semi-trailer collided with the train on the level crossing on the
Riverina Highway.
   The truck was destroyed by fire and the driver received a fractured
shoulder, broken ribs and minor burns.
   He was taken to Corawa Hospital.
   Matthew Cullen


Near Miss??   must of missed getting across safely. Also wonder what the
significance of "WHEAT truck"
"The two Geelong Drivers were taken to Yarrawonga Police Station,they
apparently had to drag the truck driver from the burning vehicle.Loco A81
was on the train,but don't  know anything further"

Not sorry that it was a relatively minor accident, just that the original
message was so wrong ;o)
Rod [comtrain]