Re: Tangaras are crap

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

In article <G%qZ3.207$031.8496@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net> "Notagunzel" <notagunzel@bigfoot.com> writes:
>From: "Notagunzel" <notagunzel@bigfoot.com>
>Subject: Re: Tangaras are crap
>Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:15:15 +1100

>Michael <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in message
>8E84AE392telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net">news:8E84AE392telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net...

>> 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,

>I'll just step right in with that word, and point out that (AFAIK) the G/N/A
>classes have got *alternaters* and not *generators*.

What is an "alternater"? Is it similar to an "alternator"?

Dave Malcolm

>Good Afternoon. |-)

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