Person in green top at w maribynong looks like a young norm cross

On Fri, 22 May 2020, 11:16 am Arthur Stone, arthur.stone5@...>
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> G’Day all. Just adding a family touch to our viewing. Details of the tour

> have been long lost in the move. All I have is the photos and memories. I

> took my first son Cameron with me on his first ride on a tram for this

> tour. I had hoped he would grow up to be a big fan like myself.

> Unfortunately not. Not that he didn’t like them, he just likes tanks

> better. He now runs Gippsland Tank Adventures inland from Toora. He and his

> younger brother joined me on several other tours over the later years.

> That man holding my son was probably me, but he looks so much different

> now than he did then.

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> An interesting thing happened on that tour that I remembered last week

> when all the posting was on about the demise of the W3 series. We were

> stopped somewhere when a W3 trundled past and a comment was made how you

> didn.t have to look to recognise that it was a W3 because of the different

> sound. Why? said I. Why does it sound different. Larger wheels, I was told.

> Oh says I Sorry I was only a boy from the tramless outer suburbs. learned

> to keep my trap shut around those that look down on those less

> knowledgeable.

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> Joining the discussion on the best looking tram. The Yapper would have to

> be one of them. My VR drop centres from my boyhood and the A Class which to

> me ticks all the boxes

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> Thanks for putting up with this drivel from someone who is learning all

> the time from his peers on TDU.

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