Re: Pass Locos

[Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au>]

tezza wrote:

> Bob wrote in message <34BCCE8D.6442B298@fastlink.com.au>...
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> :tezza wrote:
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> :> Terry Burton wrote in message
> :> <69h7r9$o7g$3@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...
> :> :"tezza" <tezza@atinet.com.au> wrote:
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> :>The 82's were good to start with but neither
> :> FreightCorp nor Ready Power clean or maintain them properly so they are
> fast
> :> starting to look like the rest of the derelicts.
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> :> When you consider that the 82s only return to their home depot every 92
> days,
> :> you can hardly blame Ready Power for the filthy state of a loco once it
> :> reaches Sydney. With these units in particular the SRA staff and mainly
> :> cleaners have developed a "couldn't give a shit " attitude and as such
> they do
> :> get filthy. I can tell you however ,that each loco is washed from top to
> :> bottom and the cabs thoroughly cleaned every 92 days. I could tell you
> some
> :> horror stories about their condition upon return to the Kooragang depot
> but
> :> that would take hours. I wonder if the guy that pissed in the fridge
> recently
> :> does that to his own fridge at home?
> :
> :                                                    Bob
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> I can't believe that Ready Power "thoroughly clean the cabs". I haven't seen
> a clean cab for more than a year. That 6 inch black mark around the bottom
> of the walls is still there. FreightCorp maintenance staff and cleaners
> don't have any particular attitude against 82's, they couldn't give a shit
> about all the locos.
>
> I could quite believe the condition of the cabs. When you have 2 people in
> them 24 hours a day, getting in and out in all types of weather, traipsing
> through mud and grease before getting into the cab. For other locos they
> have have to go through filthy enginerooms covered in oil and grease, which
> then gets spread through the cab. Then when the cleaners do their usual
> shitty job, well.... that's what you get.
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> :You should look at the 90 class cabs. They are much better than 82s because
> they are used by local crews and serviced by local people. This raises a good
> point, that is , let someone else fix it or clean it. How many times have you
> seen a log book entry by fitters saying "home depot to attend to". In other
> words , let someone else worry about it. Also worth noteing is that the NRC
> crews I believe are very good with their cab cleanliness. This could also be
> said for the 82s while they had them. Yes, its a big bad world out there and
> lots of jerks like to make it worse than it should be.

                                                        Bob