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Re: Bromage really is GOD!!!



"WhaleOilBeefHooked" <daproc@spambait.umpires.com> wrote:

>>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! :-)

Oh dear!  Did you notice the date?... 1939.  THAT 600 was a steam
engine and definitely broad gauge

Geoff Lambert