I thought Destination City called it “Brunswick Green”, I must confusing it with Pennsylvania RR Brunswick Green as applied to GG1s. There was maroon paint on some GG1s too.

The new Hawthorn Green paint looks good, I’ve seen the W8s coming out of Bendigo and it’s great that it’s back.

I just can’t see too much teary eyed nostalgia for the maroon scheme once its gone.

Tony G

> On 22 Sep 2017, at 5:06 pm, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> On 22/09/2017 4:36 PM, Tony Gallowayarg@... mailto:arg@aapt.net..au [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

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>> If they wanted something really flash for the CC they should have gone for the early 50s Brunswick Green, with cream trim and gold lining out.

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> ... which is excactly what they are now doing - except that the MMTB official colour is Hawthorn Green.

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> Easy to remember Tony: Hawthorn is Tory territory while Brunswick is Labor edging towards Green. ;-)

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> The original idea was to have a different colour scheme so that 'free' City Circle trams were different to the rest of the fleet.

> Now Hawthorn Green and Cream fulfils that function. I just wish they could make the MMTB monogram and the fleet number on the sides the correct size.

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> Mal Rowe - in Far West Brunswick (aka Essendon)

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