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Re: U Boats


MarkBau1 wrote in message <19981103223256.18116.00000007@ng-fr1.aol.com>...
><<<<<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.>>>>>>
>
>I was talking about Australia, not Queensland!  :-)
>
An old joke, Mark. And just for the record I am not a born Queenslander so I
am not totally one eyed but in railway terms if you leave all the Queensland
railway systems out, Australian railways are mostly just suburban trains.


Barry Campbell