Barry Campbell wrote in message <6hv7fq$a3b$1@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
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>Chris Stratton wrote in message <6hocb5$mn02@atbhp.corpmel.bhp.com.au>...
>>I caught the last few seconds of a story on the Nine news last night and
it
>>looked like a QR loco on its side somewhere. Does anyone know where and
>what
>>it was?
>>Regards,
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>>Chris Stratton
>>Wollongong, NSW, Australia
>>stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au
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>We Queenslanders (Geez, I thought I'd never say that) need to contribute
>more to this ng. This thread and others seem to indicate that southerners
>think Qld is a bit of a railway backwater when in fact the real railway
>happenings in Australia are in Qld and WA. The problems of the Overland may
>be of interest to a few enthusiasts but in real hauling terms the Qld coal
>lines beat everywhere in Aust. QR is the longest and biggest freight
hauling
>system in the country outside the WA iron ore lines. Not only that we also
>have the sugar industry and its fleet of can trains.
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>Perspective needed?
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>Barry Campbell
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