Awesome pics once again Greg,i remember 427 as a long time Essendon car.Do
you have any pics of 104/106 on the Zoo service?A good thing that i
remember from those days was that if an L was not available for any reason
usually a W was ru,i remember Popart 340 & decorated 965.Also wondering do
you have any pics of Essendon W2's in service in the latter years from
80-85 namely 268,329 ,366,436 (SW2),486,597,625 & 630.Interesting to note
is that 3 W2' s 366,486 & 597 were stored for a long time at Essendon up
on 24 rd and were still there even after Essendon had no W2 's left or even
depot shots from the day.
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 5:57:30 PM UTC+10, Greg King wrote:
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> After all the training on the Light Rail, I was given a break to run the

> historic cars on Route 16, it was a lot of fun but suffered from total lack

> of any publicity so, consequently, few people outside the fan community,

> knew about it, unlike todays CC which everyone knows about.

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> On a rather miserable weekend, I had one of my favourite cars, Y1 613. I

> stopped in front of where the old “St Moritz” ice skating used to be for

> some shots and then down at the junction at Luna Park. My conductor decided

> he should be in every shot, pretending to be the driver but strangely, he

> never wanted to actually become one! At the end of the shift I was able to

> get a couple of nice night shots in the yard at Hanna St. Depot.

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> The next day I had to a shunt so got these shots while I was at it of W2

> 510 and W1 431

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> But the car that kicked it all off before the other arrived (if I recall

> correctly) was W1 427 and here are some earlier sunny shots with pix taken

> in the same locals as the Y1. Must have been a warm day, I didn’t have my

> cap on!! (and I always wore it) Hey Mick, note she is a BTH car too!

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> Cheers

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> Greg

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