Re: Decker 47

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Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:33 PM

Graeme,

Here I sit at my laptop (albeit in M&MTB AEC Regal MkIII 350) living in a virtual world, professionally (and a buzz it is, too) and thinking it is incredible to know someone who actually, in our lifetimes saw tram systems like that and played around on track grinders as per your story a few days ago.

The pics look like something out of the '30s in England to me.

I guess the flipside of that is the cable car lines and streetcar lines I rode in San Francisco in the '50s, gone but not forgotten. I liked them but they were part of my neighbourhood and I never thought to take pics, or maybe I was just too young too, and Kodak Brownies wouldn't have done them justice.

Isn't it great we have these scanners and the net to share that stuff!

Once it hits the net to other people who are interested, it will not disappear.

Please keep up the pics and write more stories. You write good English, for a Kiwi.

And Peter B, get a scanner or come up here and I'll supply the beer while we feed prints into my scanner.

There's a spare bed in the top deck of my Sydney Leyland double-decker thingie whatever it is. (Leyland 600 engine with preselect gearbox.)

Bob Murphy

----- Original Message -----

From: Graeme Bennett

To: TramsDownunder

Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 8:07 PM

Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Decker 47

47was stored with the MOTAT cars in Newtown depot.

Still looked impressive up to the last.

And she will look a million dollars again soon.

WGB

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