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Re: Failed Windscreen Test



In article <34C9D4C6.A84E191B@fastlink.com.au> Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au> writes:
>From: Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au>
>Subject: Re: Failed Windscreen Test
>Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:47:18 +1100



>tezza wrote:

>> Craig Haber wrote in message <34C980A9.6171@harnessnet.com.au>...
>>
>> >A snippet in today's Herald Sun (Friday 23/1) on page 22 says a driver
>> >was injured by a bottle thrown through the front window of a freight
>> >train at Jacana.  Aren't all loco windscreen's now bulletproof
>>
>> Only if they're shooting blanks.

>  Loco windscreens are made to protect train crews, not James Bond, the
>Queen and the Pope! Modern screens are laminated just like the one in your
>car. I wonder if Ford or GMH tried shooting a chook from a cannon?
>            Bob

Not sure about modern locos but for our railmotors in Canberra to be fully 
accredited they must have bullet proof glass not laminated.

David Malcolm