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1979
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Joined: Jul 17, 2006
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Location: Your Not Getting It That Easy
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 4:06 pm
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RE: The zoo train.
Today, I was at Redfern, doing a mod to some Tulloch cars at the old carriage works and T4828 im pretty sure was part of the second zoo train. It still had some adds inside it and between the cars still had the paint.
I took some photos, ill put them up later.
1979
Do Do Do Attention Passengers, the 9:17 Empty Train via the Eastern Subburbs and Illawarra line will now depart from platform 4. Please make your way to platform 4.
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M636C
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:02 pm
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| janesmith1 wrote: | At some point last night the 2 cars were given a fresh coat of paint now that didnt take them long to do that.
Jane |
But the Budd stainless finish is very difficult to make paint stick to - look at all the blue stripes that are now basically peeling off. (I wish they'd take them off at Maintrain - it shouldn't be that hard.)
If the guys at Petersham have a high pressure water jet and some solvent, they'll get it off in less time than it took to paint, which should discourage them eventually.
The odd parts on 8020 fitted by Goninan might take the paint better, because that was never polished. The right hand side of the gondola was completely replaced, along with the fluting forward of the passenger door.
M636C
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alltrainzfan
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Location: At Many of Places Yet Nowhere
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:14 pm
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| M636C wrote: | | janesmith1 wrote: | At some point last night the 2 cars were given a fresh coat of paint now that didnt take them long to do that.
Jane |
But the Budd stainless finish is very difficult to make paint stick to - look at all the blue stripes that are now basically peeling off. (I wish they'd take them off at Maintrain - it shouldn't be that hard.)
If the guys at Petersham have a high pressure water jet and some solvent, they'll get it off in less time than it took to paint, which should discourage them eventually.
The odd parts on 8020 fitted by Goninan might take the paint better, because that was never polished. The right hand side of the gondola was completely replaced, along with the fluting forward of the passenger door.
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But if security was tightened, that would discourage the idiots completely. 
The blue stripes have held on for this long quite well. Must've been a very high quality paint used to have the blue stripes stay on for this long (although as M636C said, it is gradually peeling off now).
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JatzCrackers
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Joined: Apr 26, 2006
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Location: Castle Crackers, Lithgovia
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:50 pm
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| alltrainzfan wrote: | | janesmith1 wrote: | At some point last night the 2 cars were given a fresh coat of paint now that didnt take them long to do that.
Jane |
Now that didn't take long. Security needs to be stepped up at Petersham - those paint jobs are happening all to frequently. (I get what you mean - well I'm pretty sure I do) |
Please, nobody bother to put up photos of the new paint job. The "artists" provided an unimaginative and completely forgettable livery.
Perhaps the training of the correct use of graffiti remover is on the upcoming syllabus for new employees...
Jatz
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Fred3801
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:05 pm
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Saw what was left on the side of the Interurbans today. Hasn't even been a week and already there smeg all over it. My jaw seriously feel to the floor when I went past.
Just plain pathetic 
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Junction box
Chief Train Controller
Joined: Nov 18, 2005
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:14 am
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Thats the dumbest thing Ive seen for a while, why didnt they just put in a decent set of points and a ground frame?
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4426_No_2_end
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Joined: Dec 18, 2007
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Location: UPSTAIRS FROM THE BLOKE BELOW
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red7489
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:54 pm
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The graffiti on the V set is only on the station side. The other side has not been touched at all. I have seen no attempt to clean it of as I have been at the College this week.
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Davy
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:17 am
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| red7489 wrote: | | The graffiti on the V set is only on the station side. The other side has not been touched at all. I have seen no attempt to clean it of as I have been at the College this week. |
I saw a workman clean it this morning on the way to the city.
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Fred3801
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:20 am
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They were cleaning it in Tuesday morning. Noticed it was all of by yesterday afternoon. Lets just hope nothing happens by this weekend
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red7489
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 6:25 pm
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I have noticed that they have cleaned it up when I went there today. Most of it. You can still see bit of it on the underframe. I think that they should make the compound more secure as it will only happen again unfortunately.
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red7489
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 1:22 pm
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8020 has been hit by graffiti again. 9204 looks to have escaped it this time. 8020 was clean when I left Petersham on Friday and when I went to work to today it was covered.
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hurstville1
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 1:34 pm
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Sheesh... dumb taggers
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Electra
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:13 pm
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One point concerning the photos of Tulloch double deck trailers at Redfern which doesn't seem to have been addressed is that some cars have the multiple unit receptacles duplicated at the ends (one each side of the end doorways) while others have these receptacles placed on only one side at the end. This difference is thought to date from the early 1970s, when 53 Tulloch double deck trailers were paired with 53 Comeng double deck motor cars, in some cases using the basic cabling arrangement by economising on fittings.
Cars T4801 - T4838 and T4896 - T4920 retained the original multiple unit receptacles placed at underframe level.
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FieldShunt74
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:24 pm
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| Electra wrote: | One point concerning the photos of Tulloch double deck trailers at Redfern which doesn't seem to have been addressed is that some cars have the multiple unit receptacles duplicated at the ends (one each side of the end doorways) while others have these receptacles placed on only one side at the end. This difference is thought to date from the early 1970s, when 53 Tulloch double deck trailers were paired with 53 Comeng double deck motor cars, in some cases using the basic cabling arrangement by economising on fittings.
Cars T4801 - T4838 and T4896 - T4920 retained the original multiple unit receptacles placed at underframe level. |
Is that unusual? It's normal for trailers in S sets to have the jumper coupling on both sides at the number 2 end but only on the one side at the number 1 end.
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they were indeed great days what about placing ones foot to stop the automatic door closing did you try that as well?
