Re: Tangara Set T84

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@softhome.net>]

The reason why low floor buses are so clean is that the seating isn't
reversible- there are no people putting feet on seats or slobbering over a
tomato-sauce-soaked hamburger on the bus.


boofheadpaul@yahoo.com.au wrote in message
<71o7b2$pfv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>In article <71nt80$bn1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>  rffergus@socs.uts.edu.au wrote:
>
>> I don't think that brighter fabric would look any more tatty or dirty
than the
>> fabric that is currently used on Tangaras, which don't hide the filth
>> particularly well either. Good examples are the covers on the the trams
and
>> low floored STA buses, or some of the fabrics used as an experiment on a
>> CityDecker set.
>
>The fabric on the low-floor buses surprised me in the fact that they don't
>show much dirt.  At first I thought they would, and having graffiti-like
>patterns pre-printed on the fabric looked really gawdy.  But it has grown
on
>me and looks real good when the bus is fully fitted out in it, even when 3
>years old.  And no doubt replacement of the seat pads has dropped
>dramatically compared to other vehicles.  I am yet to see any of the seat
>covers with visible graffiti so it is really effective.  It would be great
if
>CityRail had similar.
>
>--
>Paul McCabe
>
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