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Re: Failed Windscreen Test

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Failed Windscreen Test
From: Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:47:18 +1100
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: The Wesley Hospital
References: <01bd26b4$c4b35de0$704c0acb@davibenn.pcug.org.au> <34C74A5F.61EC2103@ozemail.com.au> <34C980A9.6171@harnessnet.com.au> <6ac831$8ci$1@loomi.telstra.net>



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

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Failed Windscreen Test
  - From: rwilke@have.you.got.anything.without.spam (Roy Wilke)
- Re: Failed Windscreen Test
  - From: keithm@happy.dca.gov.au (Keith Malcolm)
- Re: Failed Windscreen Test
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>

References:
- Failed Windscreen Test
  - From: "David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au>
- Re: Failed Windscreen Test
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: Failed Windscreen Test
  - From: Craig Haber <albatross@harnessnet.com.au>
- Re: Failed Windscreen Test
  - From: "tezza" <tezza@atinet.com.au>

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