Nice to see 2107 in its original livery again.
Though I wasn't there today, I still went for a ride on a train (the
mis-named LRT 2) here in Manila. Its heavy rail train but they call it
light rail transit.

Regards,

Tim, from Sydney in Manila.

On Sat, 8 Dec. 2018, 9:57 pm Matthew Geier, matthew@...>
wrote:

> Today at Loftus, our members day was held along with Transport Heritage

> NSW holding their 'sector volunteers Christmas party' at Loftus.

>

> 2107 was bought out and shown to the volunteers present. I and a number

> of other members have spent a number of weeks cleaning off the graffiti

> the tram acquired when stored at Penrith and generally getting the tram

> into a presentable condition.

>

> 2107 is not the only preserved low floor tram, 2 German museums have low

> floor prototypes, but neither are operable. 2107 came down to the park

> for display under it's own power.

>

> It will be some time before 2107 becomes part of the regular running

> fleet - we have a lot of repairs and touch-ups to do. And infrastructure

> upgrades to support it's pantograph.

>

> The eagle eyed may notice 2017 is missing it's roof skirts. I removed

> those so we could work on getting the sun baked vinyl wrap off at ground

> level instead of swinging off ladders.

>

> The roof also still needs to be cleaned of leaf litter and the drains

> cleared out. (It also acquired the leaves at Penrith, along with a large

> number of spiders) When the roof has been clean, the skirt segments will

> go back up as they are cleaned.

>

> What is more amazing is not that the tram has things wrong and broken,

> it's the number of things that still work after it's 3 1/2 years sitting

> in a trucking yard being a home to spiders.

>

> I didn't take an interior shot or a class 3/4 view shot today.

>

>

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