Re: Railcar shell in Canberra

[keithm@happy.dca.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <7snnn1$7v6$2@toto.tig.com.au> ROY HOWARTH <rhowarth@ihug.com.au> writes:
>From: ROY HOWARTH <rhowarth@ihug.com.au>
>Subject: Re: Railcar shell in Canberra
>Date: 27 Sep 1999 12:25:05 GMT

>That AUPT railcar mock-up was actually built in two sections (without 
>bogies) and toured some Australian cities to sell the AUPT concept. 
>There's a few issues of the (now defunct) Railway Transportation magazine 
>with more detail on this hybrid, plus some b & w shots of it when new.

>Anyone know what's to become of it, as ARHS have no interest in it.

Its privately owned and is supposedly going to be used as a chook shed or 
something

Dave Malcolm

>Roy H

>>
>>>What is the origin of the burnt out railcar shell in Canberra yard? It
>>>looks vaguely like a French Autorad.
>>
>>I think it was some sort of a mock-up of an "Australian Standard
>>Railcar", a child of the Whitlam Government.  it was burnt out many
>>years ago.  (Or have I made this up and, if I didn't, is the railcar
>>referred to yet another beast?)
>>
>>Geoff Lambert
>>
>>
>>>Cheers
>>>David
>>
>>