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Re: [Melbourne - trams] Location query
John Duncan McCallum wrote {re the Brusnwick Street shunt in Victoria
Parade]:
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> Main lines concrete except turnout into siding.
You mean the Victoria Parade ballast tracks have been relaid in
concrete?
I thought they and the Dandenong Road/Queensway tracks were being relaid
in open ballast?
Any replacement yet of the crap ballast tracks in Mt Alexanda Road?
David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand
Flight engineer: I don’t like this.
Captain: We’re 26 miles north, I’ll have to climb out of this.
GPWS: Whoop whoop! Pull up! Pull up!
Captain: Go round power, please.
Flight engineer: Five hundred feet.
GPWS: Whoop whoop! Pull up! Pull up!
Flight engineer: Four hundred.
GPWS: Whoop whoop------
End of tape.
-- The last moments of Air New Zealand flight TE 901 and its 257
passengers and crew, Mt Erebus, Antarctica, November 28 1979. Twenty
years tomorrow.