Re: FreightCorp Radios

[paul.parsons@hunterlink.net.au (paul parsons)]

"Paul" <boss@opera.iinet.net.au> wrote:


>Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
>>  8< snip
>>The SRA Train Radio System or whatever it is now called is / was / always
>will
>>be a total disaster.


>I have trouble understanding how, nearly 29 years after we put a man on the
>moon, we haven't sorted basic stuff like this out. I mean really, this is
>1998!  The technolgy needed isn't even particularly new. Out here in the
>remote west it's still copper wires, and telephones attached to poles, ala
>steamdays. They talk here about upgrading to CTC, when this day and age we
>shouldn't even have signals. It should all be in the cab, along with a
>telephone to simply pick up and talk to a controller.
>I'm sure Maurie could come up with a system in less than a week, which is
>better than anything in Australia today.

>My 2c worth, that's better...
>Paul P.

At least when we walked on the MOON we got VELCO Watch bands and other
things but they tell me the sheep in NEW ZEALAND Dont like the gloves

Parso