Re: Great Northern buys GMs?

[Vanessa Finis <vanessa@omni.com.au>]

Hate Spam! wrote:

> Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au> wrote in article
> <358BA207.9E315D1C@fastlink.com.au>...
> > Can anyone confirm that Great Northern have bought several ex Australian
> > National GM class that were not sold to ASR? If this is true what work
> > could GN find for such units in Victoria?
> > Bob
> >
>  Great Northern recently hauled ballast trains on the Ringwood Line with
> multiple T class Locos!
> When I worked out of Dynon and ran ballasts on this line, it was generally
> with an A or an X at each end of the Train [push-pull]
> and then a second train loaded dirty ballast into open wagons.....We had
> problems with this h.p., bet Paul's boys will be very glad to see
> the GM's...If your reading this Paul, sure hope this ones true..and
> Congratulations! Your doing GOOD!!

There were some 4 T class trips out on the Hurstbridge Line.