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Re: U Boats


MarkBau1 wrote in message <19981103030139.23500.00003417@ng100.aol.com>...
>U boats, in Australia???
>
>I didn't know any of that GE family ever made it to Australia except maybe
on
>the iron ore roads! :-)
>
Umm! I assume you were a southerner before you became a yank. QR ran U6 and
U11 locos as the 1170 and 1150 classes. The 1150's were mostly built by GE
themselves but the final 2 or 3 were built by Goninans. The 1170's were
built by Walkers for state preference reasons.

Barry Campbell