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Re: Naming QR locos

Subject: Re: Naming QR locos
From: "WhaleOilBeefHooked" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:29:59 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Optus Internet
References: <2jtB3.9731$1E2.65472@ozemail.com.au>

John Boxall <box@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
2jtB3.9731$1E2.65472@ozemail.com.au">news:2jtB3.9731$1E2.65472@ozemail.com.au...
> Is the practice of naming locomotives common in Queensland ? Today #1770
> rolled past in a loco  train with "James Cook" on the side. Very nice.

>From memory, not common at all - 1770 was painted in a special scheme and
named to commemorate the bicentennary of Cook landing at Botany Bay. I
believe (although am open to correction) that it is the only one.

DaveP

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  - From: "Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>

References:
- Naming QR locos
  - From: "John Boxall" <box@ozemail.com.au>

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