Re: V/Line Freight Vandalim

[Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au>]

Crookesp wrote:

> 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*

  True but if they sold the waggon to the scrappies, they could have cut their
losses and got a small return for the metal.
                                                Bob