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  Thread: QR Customer Service Officers - Porters
wongm

Replies: 4
Views: 168

PostForum: Employment   Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:25 pm   Subject: QR Customer Service Officers - Porters
Why are they called porters? When I hear that job title, I think of the guys who help you to carry your bags. Confused
  Thread: Where is it ~ Melbourne Suburban (Photo) #3
wongm

Replies: 1746
Views: 49194

PostForum: Melbourne suburban   Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:21 pm   Subject: Where is it ~ Melbourne Suburban (Photo) #3
No to both. Have you noticed the level crossing protection?
  Thread: Western Suburbs transport upgrade
wongm

Replies: 34
Views: 785

PostForum: Trams and Light Rail   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:48 pm   Subject: Re: Western Suburbs transport upgrade
Footscray did have some tram routes in historic times, but apart from #82 they got closed down.

Ref - http://www.geocities.com/z_class/tramhistory.html

The Footscray Trust was building three ...
  Thread: Austrains NR Class
wongm

Replies: 66
Views: 2844

PostForum: Model Railways   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:40 pm   Subject: Austrains NR Class
Oh no - the last release in these colour schemes!

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7225/img4235ok8.jpg

Nup, an AMRM from February 2002. Laughing
  Thread: Where is it ~ Melbourne Suburban (Photo) #3
wongm

Replies: 1746
Views: 49194

PostForum: Melbourne suburban   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:24 pm   Subject: Where is it ~ Melbourne Suburban (Photo) #3
Thanks for that. Where is the bit of rail?

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2719/whereistherailyd9.jpg
  Thread: Healesville for Outer ring?
wongm

Replies: 8
Views: 118

PostForum: Other Transport   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:36 pm   Subject: Healesville for Outer ring?
I think we should get in early, and build a Frankston Bypass Bypass before the Frankston Bypass gets too congested.
  Thread: Really stupid question
wongm

Replies: 8
Views: 249

PostForum: General   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:38 pm   Subject: Really stupid question
The control system inside the train would not like it if lightning hit the overhead, and would probably blow up in the same way your electronics would if the power line into your house got hit.

Do ...
  Thread: Ferny Grove, Ipswich & Rosewood line closures
wongm

Replies: 44
Views: 1205

PostForum: Queensland   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:35 pm   Subject: Ferny Grove, Ipswich & Rosewood line closures
If you had enough diesel-hydraulic DH classes and some SX sets you could power on right though the water. Twisted Evil
  Thread: Cranbourne project (new station and stabling)
wongm

Replies: 72
Views: 3262

PostForum: Melbourne suburban   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:34 pm   Subject: Cranbourne project (new station and stabling)
About the only issue I see with the layout is that you only have access to the sidings from one end, via a shunt from a dead end platform. If you moved it up the line a bit, then you would have access ...
  Thread: Sparks and more beyond Frankston
wongm

Replies: 16
Views: 752

PostForum: Melbourne suburban   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:31 pm   Subject: Sparks and more beyond Frankston
Today at the I was flicking through plans for a double track station at Langwarrin, along with a three road maintenance shed and enough stabling for 20 trains. The thing was about 1 metre long fully u ...
  Thread: Nominations for the ugliest carriage
wongm

Replies: 10
Views: 184

PostForum: General   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:19 pm   Subject: Nominations for the ugliest carriage
Commonwealth Rail Wegman cars looks really boring to me.

Victorian Railways AZ cars look ridiculous with the really close windows spacing, but the interiors are good.

GSR has a really ugly looki ...
  Thread: ARHS line books
wongm

Replies: 8
Views: 397

PostForum: Victoria   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:13 pm   Subject: Re: ARHS line books
I got a copy from a guy scanned to a disc
When I asked about copy right he did not supply an answer
When it is out of print and unlikely to be republished I don't have an issue, as long as it is som ...
  Thread: Proposed Federation Square East development
wongm

Replies: 42
Views: 2789

PostForum: Melbourne suburban   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:10 pm   Subject: Proposed Federation Square East development
At the moment they are expanding the MCG southern stand concourse over Brunton Avenue, at present it is only a few metres wide in some sections.

http://images.fotopic.net/yveo0o.jpg

The William ...
  Thread: Is There Real Demand For Bicycle Parking?
wongm

Replies: 13
Views: 347

PostForum: Melbourne suburban   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:05 pm   Subject: Is There Real Demand For Bicycle Parking?
IIRC Bicycle Victoria (or was it the PTUA or another lobby group) said that a bicycle cage is more efficient than lockers - a locker only one person can use, and takes up a heap of room. A cage might ...
  Thread: "Please move down carriage" Siemens auto-announcement
wongm

Replies: 19
Views: 830

PostForum: Melbourne suburban   Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:04 pm   Subject: "Please move down carriage" Siemens auto-announcement
The Xtrap problem, with "not enough memory", what are they running, 5meg ram? My lord, it would take 20 bucks to add more 'memory' to a train.
$20 to each train would probably give you enough RAM for ...
 
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