Re: 3801 - IT'S BLACK ..... WHY????

[consultancy@SPAMBLOCKbigpond.com (carrington)]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:06:34 +1000, <glillic@msn.com.au> wrote:

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>Railway Rasputin wrote in message <37C27233.3462696D@fastlink.com.au>...
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>>carrington wrote:
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>>> Now I think I know how the purists in the UK feel when the
>>> preservationists go off into their own realms of livery fantasy!!!
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>>> Black, with not so subtle THICK red lining - do we have a closet North
>>> Sydney rugby league or Essendon AFL influence here?
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>>I like it!
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>>It almost looks like a real steam engine.
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>>rgds
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>To the above and previous postings today, thank you for the almost unaminous
>vote of appreciation. 3801 will remain black for a while. When the
>facilities to apply a first grade paint job at Eveleigh return in a few
>weeks and there is a long enough break in the busy schedule for the
>remainder of the year to permit it to happen, the drums of green paint will
>come out and '01 will return to its "proper" colour.

Woohoo!!


> The black and red are not intended as permanent, but do permit those that were not around in
>previous times get get an idea of what she looked like then.
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>Regards
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>Geoff Lillico
>Tours & Marketing
>3801 Limited
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>trains@magna.com.au
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>www.globalpresence.com.au/3801
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