Re: West Coast Rail looking for new locos?

["Rod" <berlina@bigpond.com>]

Michael Walker wrote in message <930836980.128822@woody.hotkey.net.au>...
>>S311 returned to service Tuesday 29/6, when attached to 8220 at Geelong.
>It
>>has a new paint job (note it doesn't have "West Coast Railway" on the side
>>(yet?), and it's numberplates are now black/white instead of
black/yellow).
>>It is on overhauled bogies (new wheels, overhauled traction motors etc
>etc).
>
>
>I am glad the number plates are back to being black and white as original,
I
>never did like the yellow and black...
>
You are right, Victorian engines should always be fitted with the big heavy
number plates and regardless of the colour scheme, the black and white
number boards....ah nostalgia!
Rod ;o)