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Re: Overseas Reader Query (from railway digest)
- Subject: Re: Overseas Reader Query (from railway digest)
- From: Tell <telljb@ozemail.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 19:57:36 +0930
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: From Home
- References: <9ap1lr$64i06$1@ID-65853.news.dfncis.de> <3ad175e9$0$25489$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au> <_DjA6.138149$lj4.4231769@news6.giganews.com>
- Xref: news1.unite.net.au aus.rail:34618
>"Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in reply to Rod:
> "Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3ad175e9$0$25489$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> > Yard Hogs ? he actually mistook a NR for a Pilot ??
> > You just gotta smile :o)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
> > should we further trouble him with links to Hammersley??
> > I guess he would find it hard to believe Australia runs some of the
> longest
> > and heaviest trains in the world !
>Said Dave:
> Ummm, it was published in the April digest - and check out the date
> mentioned in it.
Said Tell:
Dont read digest or any other gunzel publication so can
not comment on that bit. I go see for myself and the
Pilbara operators were hauling the worlds heaviest 20
years ago.!
Err, cough-cough, they do use US top-shelf rail
"standards" to achieve this however. :)
....Tell