Re: NSW 4400 Class Engines

[Rod Gayford <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>]

All trains are run for one reason, for whoever is paying for the trip whether it
be passenger or freight.
Cheers
RJG

Dave Proctor wrote:

> Jack <bd107@tsn.cc> wrote in message
> PU6Q3.252$Z_1.2054@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net">news:PU6Q3.252$Z_1.2054@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net...
>
> > In the fair dinkum department what difference does it make to the pple in
> > the train which way the unit is facing, it still pulls the same, still
> > sounds the same etc...
>
> Does not look the same on the photos.
>
> > As far as excursions go, i dont work for them for the simple reason that I
> > didnt like working on the old locos... even Jumbos could be horrible to
> work
> > on, particularly in the NO 2 End, the heat difference between NO1 and NO2
> > end was remarkable...
>
> A good point - you do not work them because you do not have to. Nobody
> forces the drivers on railtours to work the train. They volunteer to do it
> (even though they get paid while doing so).
>
> I do not go on railtours, for the simple reason that they bore me to tears.
> But I can understand how people who *do* go on them could feel, when
> something that affects the aesthetics of the train is allowed to do so,
> particularly when it is so easy to change.
>
> DaveP