Re: ATTN DAVID B RE 32'S IN TIBET

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Eddie Oliver wrote in message <373787D5.7C4@efs.mq.edu.au>...
>The Morphetts wrote:
>
>
>> There's not a scrap of loyalty there - I'd understand if the wine
industry had been a
>> big user of railway transport in this country, but to my knowledge their
use of trains
>> to transport their product in Australia has been limited to a few
examples in South
>> Australia
>
>Not true actually. McWilliams Wines even have their own sidings at
>Chullora.
>
>Of course for the modelling fraternity, this is an ideal opportunity to
>add authenticity as well as to combine hobbies. A model of the Chullora
>Industrial Sidings area would have much appeal anyway (there's some
>fascinating trackwork there, with sidings crossing each other, a double
>slip, etc) and you could model the McWilliams area complete with its
>contents.
>

The McW tankers are very discreetly camouflagued. For what is probably
self-evident reasons, they don't exactly announce "hey..... I'm a wine
tanker". So after all of the trouble of building an accurate model as
outlined above, you would still have to explain to people that the
non-descript black tankers with the roman numerals were in fact plonkwagens
and not for bitumen or bunker-C.

Of course you could put them in a brown paper bag and park them at the end
of a dead-end siding to convey the gist....

My solution to this dilemma is to pretend that the current drop I sip was in
fact shipped by rail. At least for the first 2 glasses, after which it
doesn't matter. Donate generously to the Grange for corrupt gunzels err save
the TNR 5A appeal!

>And you don't even have to retrieve the 32's from Tibet first.
>
>Eddie Oliver
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