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Article #124Re: Why paint items in historic liveries?
From: Roy Wilke
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 05:28
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 05:28
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Fred Morley wrote: > I will throw my 6 penneth worth the colour of the 38's were battle ship grey > ,we used to go and look at them during lunch break at Broadmeadow high > school, (student there 1945-1948 )which was just over the fence if you > could find it. > FredMorley Phht! You should know that having actually seen the locomotives in the correct colour scheme when the paint was still fresh doesn't compare to the accurate knowledge to be gained from looking at a 50-year-old and out-of-focus B&W picture taken with the trusty Box Brownie camera. ;) Of course, the picture would give much more accurate details if it showed the C38 in the background, steaming at speed from underneath Aunty Mabel's (who's the *real* subject of the photo) right armpit.
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