Gday Matthew / All

Its interesting that your good wife got the Milan trammies to say
where the Trams got put to bed.
That is exactly what we used to say when I was at Camberwell
After the end of the night shift, IE after last car had run in.
The Starter would say, "All the Trams have been put to bed".
And we all would go home.

Cheers, Mick.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Geier" matthew@...>
To: TramsDownUnder@...>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Glenelg line closure, Sunday 07/12/2008

> Mick Duncan wrote:

>> Gday All

>>

>> In the good old days of the MMTB, they would build up the head and

>> running edge with weld, grind it to profile and all would be well after a

>> few hrs work.

>>

> You can get machines to do it automatically. Some where in my

> collection I have a photo taken in Milano of a machine being used by ATM

> maintenance personal that was automatically applying a small measured

> amount of weld to the gauge face of a curve.

> They stopped the machine and lifted it aside so our tram (a Peter Whitt

> car) could use the loop.

>

> My wife then spoke to them in her basic Italian and asked 'where to the

> trams go to sleep'. One of the crew then marked all the depots on our

> ATM system map. And then offered to take photos of us next to the Peter

> Whit, much to the amusement of the driver. Then asked the driver

> something (Who was standing outside having a smoke), waved me in the cab

> and took a photo of me at the controls :-) The perway crew were very

> friendly and accommodating of my interest in their welder.