Re: Bromage really is GOD!!!

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CL Burton <"clburton@camtech.com.au"@camtech.net.au> wrote in message
<3780b5c5@news.camtech.net.au>...

>I don't know who is God,

That is David Bromage.

>but certainly 3 divisions of the Overland were
>common before the war.

Not disputed - GOD! said there were five, at a time when he would have only
been about 4 or 5 years old.

>Inside the front cover of "600" is a wonderful
>photo of 600 leaving Tailem Bend with the Adelaide bound 3rd Division of
>the Overland on 24 December 1939.

I thought all of the 600's were on standard gauge - I have a photo of a
couple of 600's backing ontot he inaugural Indian Pacific at Broken hill,
and they looked pretty new then - they were pretty bad in that mustard
colour scheme when in NSW though! :-)

DaveP