Re: Red Rattlers be damned!

["John McCandless" <johnmc@topend.com.au>]

I think "Red Rattler" has also been applied to the Gulflander at some point,
not sure.
QR's own intranet refers to it as a "Tin Hare" railmotor, and i've heard it
being called
"Leaping Lena", too.   It seems to be a case of "one nickname fits all"....

John Mccandless
Cloncurry qld au



Roger Lloyd <rogerlloyd@optusnet.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
3a6ccf94$0$16388$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:3a6ccf94$0$16388$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> As an expat NSW railfan living in Victoria for the past 28 years, I object
> to the NSW press and some misguided railfans calling the old single decker
> electric cars "red rattlers". This is a term unfortunately stolen from
> Victoria where it was used (quite correctly) to describe the Tait cars on
> the Melbourne suburban system - believe me, they did rattle and shake!