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Article #120Re: Why paint items in historic liveries?
From: Lambing Flat
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:48
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:48
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Hunslet wrote: > For those who wish to check it out, the book is "The Australian Book > of Trains", by J H & W D Martin, published by Angus & Robertson in > 1947 and the colour plate, described as - The "Newcastle Flyer" on > Hawkesbury Bridge, natural colour photo by Don Martin) is facing page > 226. The book is thought to be the first "real" publication on > Australian railways. > > This particular photograph shows 3801 to be quite a dark gray, whilst > other black and white photos suggest that the gray is considerably > lighter. There was a colour photo in the RTM Roundhouse some years ago of a grey 38 at Eveleigh, and it appeared to be a quite light grey in that photo. Sorry, don't have the time to go through them and find the exact issue, but I'm pretty sure it was later than 1989. -- James McInerney My G gauge garden homage to the now long gone railways of Tasmania's west coast, the "Rurr Valley Railway" http://www.cia.com.au/bullack/rvrtitle.html also http://www.cia.com.au/bullack/ , where the steam era NSWGR secondary lines live on in HO at bucolic "Lambing Flat" and http://members.optusnet.com.au/lambingflat/ for the family stuff!
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