Re: [QLD] Red Rattlers be damned!

[roywilke@notanispatall.net.au (scrivener)]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:08:38 +1300, David McLoughlin
<davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote:

>david wrote:
>> 
>> OOPS the van cars were stainless steel. Qlders know what I mean.  I remmeber them at
>> Toowong in the early 80's.
>> 
>
>IIRC those Brisbane stainless steel cars were built for a steam-to-
>electrification project from the early 1960s that never went ahead. They
>ended up being pulled by diesel locos.
>
>Brisbane had very old swing-door wooden dog-box cars that I remember
>being pulled by steam locos when I visited there when I was very young
>in the 1960s, and some were still running being pulled by diesel locos
>when I spent a year there (living in Warrawee Street Toowong, my brother
>still lives in the same house) in 1969-70.  I can't remember the colour,
>they may have been red. They may have been green. Or both. They were
>damned archaic I can tell you.

You're talking about the "Evans" coaches which were introduced in the
early 1910s and remained in service until about 1980.