Re: V/Line Freight Vandalim

[keithm@happy.dca.gov.au (Keith Malcolm)]

In article <19980123153401.KAA27040@ladder02.news.aol.com> crookesp@aol.com (Crookesp) writes:
>From: crookesp@aol.com (Crookesp)
>Subject: Re: V/Line Freight Vandalim
>Date: 23 Jan 1998 15:34:49 GMT

>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*

Ahh, but it's much easier. You just cut off the top half of the waggon, put a 
few ring bolts in the cement lift it out and drop it. You could even weld the 
waggon up again if you were realy desperate.

David Malcolm