Re: Overseas Reader Query (from railway digest)

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Tell" <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> >"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. :)

Well, said "letter" was in the "April" edition, and the date "April 1" was
mentioned in said letter. Does that tell you something about the contents of
said letter?

Dave