Re: V/Line Freight Vandalim

[crookesp@aol.com (Crookesp)]

In article <34C4935D.61F13642@fastlink.com.au>, Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au>
writes:

>> The wagon was transported to Nth Geelong yard (how did they work out the
>> weight of the wagon for the train?) and put near Nth Geelong C Signal Box.
>A
>> truck with a high pressure water pump was used for 3 days, 8 hours a day
>(at
>> $350 per hour) to break up the cement (the noise of jackhammers would have
>> been too loud in the enclosed space).
>> Why didn't they just scrap the wagon and use one of the many unused ones
>> sitting around the state?

Scrapping would still involve breaking up the cement and cutting up the waggon.
Same difference...

*Philip*