Re: 8244 not a write off

["tezza" <tezza@atinet.com.au>]

G520 hasn't been touched in months. Anything Chullora [or Lithgow or Delec]
repair is useless anyway.

Bob wrote in message <349C7F56.EC9091D3@fastlink.com.au>...
>The info in December Digest sugesting that 8244 was a write off after
>the Delec crash in 96 is wrong. The unit was out of service for about 5
>months and is now well and truely back. I might add that most of the
>time it was out of service was because Freightcorp stuffed around
>deciding if they would accept Clydes quote for the repairs. Also of note
>is that the repairs for G520 also in the same accident were given to SRA
>Chullora as they put in a cheaper price. Now some 18 months later G520
>is still at Chullora and is reduced to an underframe awaiting
>reasseblly. I hear that it is now over $200,000 over budget and still
>going. I have akso heard that the manager on this project was just
>recently replaced. I wonder how quick Clyde would have been repairing
>G520?
>                                                                  Bob
>