Re: [OT] 48 class

[notanemailadress@notanisp.com.au (Roy Wilke)]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 07:02:58 +1100, "Rod Gayford"
<rjaygee@eisa.net.au> wrote:

>So who won the prize for the most idiotic comment.  We still have not heard
>a logical reason why the 48 was trying to make its way along tracks that had
>a good possibility of being scoured by fllood waters with the resulting huge
>damages bill. Why not send a hi railer out first to test the track in the
>first indstance?
>Cheers
>Rod Gayford

Maybe there wasn't a hi-rail vehicle available.

And it might possibly have been the case that the 48 was trying to get
to a safe haven before the flood waters got too high.

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>"keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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>> Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
>> 3a1bf840$0$19424$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:3a1bf840$0$19424$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
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>> > "Dave Proctor"
>> > > "Tezza"
>> > > > "Dave Proctor"
>> > > > > "Tom"
>> > > >
>> > > > > > so what was the 48 doing out there?
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Going from somewhere to somewhere else?
>> > > >
>> > > > Conditional or mandatory?
>> > >
>> > > Who cares? Either way, it was going from somewhere to somewhere else,
>> which
>> > is why it
>> > > was there.
>> >
>> > But who was gonna change the lightbulb?
>> >
>> >
>>
>> More to the point, were the crew wearing ties?
>>
>> Dave Malcolm
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