Gareth Lumsden wrote:
>
> The Silverton locos are going to
RTS(Rail Technical Support) Services at
> Dynon to be
refurbished.
>
. I can say that both cab are filthy,
and in need of some
attention.
"Cab modifications" means this: Silverton is spending
enough money to buy a house to modify the cabs of 48s35 and 48s37 to meet
the PTU imposed conditions for those locomotives to be driven outside of
NSW. Mechanically, those locomotives have already received significant
attention, and are presently in good operating order.
to meet the PTU imposed conditions ......
this writer appears to be a little
"contemptuous"[another spell check please] of the PTU cab
committee here in Victoria.
But would the average office worker change the
toner in the Laser printer if there was no where to wash your hands
after!
would he sit on a standard chair that has it's
vinyl or cloth covering so covered in grease or been ripped exposing
crumbling foam?
would he listen to hundreds of rattles that
dull the hearing short term and destroy it long term?
would he put up with having the gas struts
[seat] welded solid, and a continuos vibration up his spine all day
long?
would he open the windows to more noise and
fumes because the boss would not air condition his office for
him?
Yes the PTU forces a few conditions on the
employer....NO railway management either Government or Corporate has ever
given us anything.........everything has been won by the railway workers
having a go.......
But that was the past.......We have lost the
ability to fight.....Reith has found a way to destroy us, and he
is!
We have turned into puppy dogs and lay on our
backs and wait for a scrap that will never come...till we find the guts our
Grandfathers had in the '20's and 30's .
Australia was a great place to
live! Australia could be again! but if nothing is done
soon, we will be so much under the control of overseas corporations and
their lackeys, that we will have to have a revolution to rid ourselves of
the scum!
A very small example is to be seen in Timor
right now as Indonesians who were sent in, in their hundreds of thousands to
occupy and outnumber the locals, are now deserting Timor like rats from a
sinking ship, as Indonesia, brought to its knees by New York Money [ less
politely..Yankee Jews fiddling the world Economy], lose their interest in
this small country.
Funny thing about Timor, why did Gough not
help them.
Rod