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Re: Where'd you get your units? Re: New Brickshelf gallery
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Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:13:01 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richard Parsons writes:
In lugnet.loc.au, James Howse writes:
Train stuff :-
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6620
Nice. You nailed that unit. Do you know the provenance? It kind of looks
like a GM or GE rather than a British unit.
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.

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 saved trouble and not guessed where Braemar was...)

P.S. There's also a Clyde Engineering at Bathurst, which is big enough to
have suburbs, one of which is Braemar (more a housing estate rather than a
suburb), but the CE works isn't in the housing estate.



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  Re: Where'd you get your units? Re: New Brickshelf gallery
 
(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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