Re: Train Cleaning, Was Pass Locos

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

Ashley Wright wrote:

>   I for the life of me cannot believe how dirty the floors of the
> suburban trains are, it looks to me like the only cleaning they get is
> mopping, and then not all that often. I have had been sussing the
> floors out for some time now, and I cannot even see a drain in them to
> allow other forms of cleaing, Ie pressure cleaning, which IMO done
> weekly with appropriate detergent, disenfectant would suffice.

Tangaras have drains in them  They look like a huge screw about 3 inches in
diameter.

>  the Tangara windows appear to be three seperate layers of glass (it
> may only be two, but looks like three) and the crap gets in between
> where it is impossible to clean presumably without removing the
> windows.

There is a centre layer of plastic with a layer of glass on each side of that.
Removing the outer layer is easy.  Just run it between Cronulla and Sutherland,
or Blacktown and Penrith for a day, and you're sure to not have an outer layer by
the end of it!

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David Johnson
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