Re: South Australia

["tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au>]

Or aus.metticket.rave

Tony Bailey

Gareth Lumsden wrote in message ...
>On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Chris Brownbill wrote:
>
>> Neil Waller wrote:
>>
>> > I haven't seen GM44 painted.   I have a limited opportunity to see ASR
>> > trains (or ASR hauled trains) living south of Adelaide.   There is the
>> > Patricks and grain trains.   The Patricks is usually CLP/CLF or ALF
with
>> > GM helpers, and the grain can be anything.
>> >
>> > But they run either in the dead of night or during weekdays.   So I
>> > don't see them.
>> >
>>
>> Crikey, if they're running 6-headed GMs over the hills you wouldn't need
to see
>> them - you could HEAR them from the other side of town!
>>
>
>6 GM's must sound pretty loud.  The peace-shattering roaring noise from a
>GM-CLF combo was pretty impressive last time I was there.
>
>Thanks to everyone who replied *sensibly* to this post, I am considering a
>quick trip (from Melb) in a few weeks.
>
>However, it is very unfortunate and sad that this ng is always subject to
>useless ramblings, perhaps it should be renamed aus.rail.junk, this ng
>used to be a very good resource once upon a time.  :-(
>
>Gareth.
>
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