Re: [VIC] headboards, nameplates and non authentic liveries. (was: [VIC] Steamrail headboard)

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

Greg Triplett wrote:

> >>Most volunteers thought that the organisation that has restored as much equipment
> as Steamrail that they gave their time to deserved better than that kind of attitude, <<

> All wasted effort when restoration is corrupted to become
> transformation and in later years fantasy.
>
> Greg Triplett
>
> ( Resigned from Steamrail 1985 - the year the headboard
> appeared )

Lets put it this way, thanks to the headboard I have never seen an operating R or D3 in VR condition. Even if you don't care about heritage, it wrecks the look of the
locomotives. The D3 is a loco with a very clean and uncluttered appearence that is wrecked by a bright red headboard that sticks out like a sore thumb. Y112 is currently the
only steam locomotive on the main line that doesn't have a nameplate or a headboard, and it looks really good.

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