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Re: Where'd you get your units? Re: New Brickshelf gallery
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lugnet.loc.au
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Mon, 3 Sep 2001 12:44:59 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, James Howse writes:
> In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Jason King writes:
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> > > Train stuff :-
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6620
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> > Nice. You nailed that unit. Do you know the provenance? It kind of looks
> > like a GM or GE rather than a British unit.
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> After a bit of ferreting around if found this snippet of info.
> The 82 class was built by Clyde Engineering at Braemar (South Australia). It
> has a GM 3000HP engine.
Mmmm. Now James knows a hell of a lot more about trains than I ever will,
but there's a Braemar just down the road from my place here in the Southern
Highlands (of New South Wales), and Clyde Engineering have a fairly
substantial works there on a railway spur that serves no other purpose these
days, and I seem to recall that Eli Donati, who lives a little further south
at Moss Vale was engrossed in building a huge (6 foot long) 82 class. Now I
may be joining the dots in the wrong order here, but....
Lord knows there are more Braemars on this little planet that one might
ordinarily shake a stick at.
Richard
Still baldly going...
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 | | Re: Where'd you get your units? Re: New Brickshelf gallery
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| (...) Step one. If you don't know something, make it up. Step two. when someone does know, fess up. I wasn't sure that it was Braemar SA, just a punt on further searching I did. You're probably right, but there's no harm done. James (who could have (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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