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Subject: 
Where'd you get your units? Re: New Brickshelf gallery
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.trains
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Date: 
Mon, 3 Sep 2001 04:19:52 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.general, Jason King 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.

James (who likes the odd train now and then)



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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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  Re: New Brickshelf gallery
 
(...) like a GM or GE rather than a British unit. Any reason you chose it (other than it looks cool with that inverse sloped windshield and cab overhang, which came out great, by the way)? (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)

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