Re: V/Line Pass Worst Service in Australia

[Roy Marshall <marsh@zip.com.au>]

I used to really enjoy shaking the bloody things to get the last bit of
heat out of them! Usually covered in grime (or worse).. There was never
a shortage of them trackside either..-:) Blayney on the Cowra Mail, now
that was living!!

Cheers Roy

Krel wrote:

> Remember foot-warmers? What a great heating system. A slight raising
> of temperature to start with than a gradual diminishing down to
> bl****y freezing within a few short hours.
> Remember hours and hours taken to get nowhere?
> Remember climbing out of a cold mail train at 5 am at some junction
> onto an even colder platform and then into a "Tin Hare" to continue
> onto the branch?
> 
> Anyone who 'loved riding the mail trains' should be banished to
> somewhere overseas ;-).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Krel
> 
> Steamfreight 99 at Victorian Goldfields Railway - July 17-18 1999.
> 
> VGR website http://www.castlemaine.net.au/~vgr/
> 
> Waxy Wary Zany Zebu