Re: Tangaras are crap

[keithm@commslab.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <8E84AE392telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net> Michael <mk@netstra.com.au> writes:
>Subject: Re: Tangaras are crap
>From: Michael <mk@netstra.com.au>
>Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 06:00:44 GMT

>And so are the G/N/A/B/E classes :-)

>They all have a cab at both ends, and all run from electricity. Except, 
>that all (besides the E) generate their electricity on the fly (i.e. with a 
>diesel generator). :-) <g,d,r,ef!>

>But, if we pedanticise[1] it down a little more, a train can be defined as 
>consisting of two cars or more, in which case, we can call the push/pull 
>Bacchus Marsh, Sunbury trains, EMU's because of the P's at both ends. :-)

>Regards
>Michael

>[1] is there such a word?

There is now.

Dave Malcolm

>Notagunzel said on 20-Nov-1999 in 
><eEqZ3.193$031.7652@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net>:

>>> Technically, if
>>> an electric train has a cab at either end, it is an EMU.
>>
>>Does this mean a Victorian L class or a 39 class from Qld or a 86 from NSW
>>is an EMU?
>>
>>It's an electric train with a cab at each end?!? |-)


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