Re: "Doggies" (Was Vic Tangaras)

[dbromage@omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Les Brown (pcc@ocean.com.au) wrote:
> The Melbourne press must've been speaking to railfans to know they
> were called "doggies". As a railfan from the mid-sixties, we called
> them "Doggies" then. In fact, when the ARHS published a little booklet
> to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Australian (and Victorian)
> electrification in 1969, page 8 reads (after coming to the conclusion
> that Tait trains, based upon their current levels of replacement,
> would last until 1999!); "In the meantime, much to the delight of
> "doggie" fans, a number of compartment, swing-door cars which have not
> been given major overhauls in latter years because of their "pending
> withdrawl" are now undergoing repairs at Newport Workshops". 

The Doggies were still getting lifted in 1971. Not bad for 90 year old
cars! The motor cars did get new frames in 1911-14. :)

Cheers
David