Re: Red Rattlers be damned!

["Rail Roamer" <leadscout@one.net.au>]

Well the use of term RED RATTLERS in the early 70's certainly beats the use
of it in the 80's. So would it not be fair to say that if you were in VIC in
the 70's and someone used the term you'd have a good idea as to what they
meant? However if I used the term in front of a Sydney sider in that time
I'd get a look puzzled look in reply?


"Mick Stock" <mstock@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>
> Chris Downs wrote:
> >
> > The biggest rattle on Sydney's single deck suburban cars came from those
cars
> > that retained lift windows when the rubber window guides were
> > removed/vandalised/not replaced.  The windows rattled incessantly,
something
> > that didn't occur on the cars that were fitted with Beclawat windows.
> >
> > The same rattle also affected U-boat cars with lift windows similarly
> > maintained.  The rattle was more like an explosion when another train
> > passed/was passed at speed.
>
> Sounds like many of the Hitachi cars in Melb where the rubber seal is
missing
> - rattles like crazy, and sounds like a brick hit it when another train
goes
> passed.  Almost loud enough for anyone close by to need a change of
underwear
> (or a new heart)!
>
> Mick.
>
> --
> Mick Stock
>  mstock@bigpond.net.au