Re: C508 - PHOTOS OF NEW NATIONAL RAIL LIVERY

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

Les Brown <pcc@ocean.com.au> wrote in message
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> markbau1@aol.comQQQQyuk (MarkBau1) wrote in aus.rail:
>
> ><<<<<<I have it that on good advise that C508 will run as a lead unit on
an NRC
> >train to Albury on 15th of September.
> >
> >Also that retired V.R. Loco Inspector Gerald Dee will be riding on the
> >loco.>>>>>
> >
> >Wonder if Gerald will be using Maitland or State Mine coal? :-)
> >
> What? I think the Cab Committee has gone a bit too far this time and
> that in addition to the air-conditioned cab, Retention Toilets, CD
> stereo-player, kettle, micro-wave oven, Notebook P.C., cab-curtains
> and softly-diffused cab-lighting, they now include a fireplace? In a
> C-class? What's this world coming too? I don't want to know about it
> when they start including freshly cut flowers in the cab-window and a
> pipe-stand. That's some work place you got there fellas - a real home
> away from home. I bet the lounge.....errr......cab is starting to take
> overmost of the length of the loco.
>
> Some might say that this was the only way they could entice Mr. Dee
> back into a Diesel Loco, although I can't see him needing much
> encouragement.
>
> (:-))
>
> Les Brown

Actually Les, they were going to put window flower boxes in but they
wouldn't fit the tight NSW loading gauge.<g>

Bob.