Re: Yellow two-car Harris thingy today

[Michael <mk@netstra.com.au>]

Hello,

The two car harris thing you saw is used as a rail greaser. As far as i 
know, it's used on bends to help prevent rail/flange wear between the train 
and the track. In the past it had a tait car tacked in the middle to grease 
the overhead, but since Melbourne did some forward planning and implemented 
carbon pans there has been no need for it any more. It's probably burning 
away in someone's fireplace right now, or does anyone know if it was 
stored?

No, youre a gunzel when you are compelled to get into the nearest available 
car and start chasing it, no matter how hard it is (i.e. doing 160kph 
through mountainous terrain, and you can still keep up with it :)) 

Only decent gunzelling experience ive had so far (owing to lack of licence, 
lack of drivability of car) was chasing an A class on a Maryvale paper 
train from Warragul to about the entrance at Maryvale APM. This also 
involving taking off, off route to follow this electric thing hauling some 
sort of train over a bridge in Moe, iirc.

The maddest gunzels have a tendency of having the wheels taken off their 
car and obscene words written in stones on their bonnet :-) Others carry 
around large human impersonating microphones.... But not to worry, none of 
us here are them.... are we? :-)


Regards
Michael
(As much a gunzel as one can be when you have to rely on travelling the 
same method as what youre chasing).


FRISCÉ Theatre Co. (Bryan Cullis) said on 25/08/1999 in
<935583042.253723@diddley.primus.com.au>: 

>Saw that yellow two-car Harris thingy passing through Laburnum station
>on my way to school this morning (about 9.30).  Don't know what its
>doing, where its going, or what the hell it actually is, but it was
>there and I saw it. Does this mean I'm a gunzel now?
>