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




"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.

Hopefully unneccessarily, but if so, for the the trucker, not the train crew.