Re: Wheres all Victorian Big Diesels gone?

["Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

Which Rod?
I think I accidently lost a billy once, with the tea leaves!!
C's only had kettles on them if they had been accepted for use in AN
territory.
We were happy to use our own billies in the hotplate, provided since new.
You did however forget the bloody sliding windows, that were spring assisted
to resist both opening and closing.
Several times I saw the Firemans window shatter into millions of fragments,
and the top lock and bar would still be hanging from the top of the frame.
Of course they fixed this problem after a long fight by Neville Mann [is he
still around?]
V/Line were convinced the plastic, although stone proof, would scratch
badly, and should not be used.
Shifty Neville won the day, and several months later all the C's cab Windows
and most of all the other classes had badly scratched windows, that made the
mirrors useless from then on.
Check out the N Classes next time you see one!
Ah! I would almost wish I was back to drive a C again.They have character.
Cheers
Rod
Yuri <steam4me@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:08:26 +1100, The Narc <gono15@hotmail.com.com>
> wrote:
>
> >chance go about saying the "Cs" should still be running main line :-))
>
> I keep hoping that if FA get NR, the Cs will be brought home like nine
> prodigal children.
>
> One of my clients (FA not NRC<g!>) told me recently that he and a
> couple of others would volunteer to take a G or two over to SA and
> drag them back to Vic as soon the ink was dry on the NR purchase
> contract - yes, noisy, vibrating monsters that were too hot in summer,
> too cold in winter, the kettle didn't work (or Rod threw them out of
> the window) but these locos had a brutish no-nonsense attitude that is
> totally lacking in today's purring NRs.
>
>  </C class rant off>
>
> Photos of C508 in NRC's yard in Sep 99 may be viewed at
> http://www.railpage.org.au/steam4me/c508.htm
>
> Not having had a chance to chase ATN's Ls out of Melbourne, the best
> thrash I heard out of them was the runpast on delivery day at APD
> (thanks for that, Sean<g!>).   Now convert the Ls to BG and run them
> up Ingliston Bank, aah there'd be a ground trembling performance! (and
> I haven't got the time/money/spousal approval to race up to NSW to
> hear them work out of Pt Kembla.
>
> Yuri
>