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- From: brom@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (David Bromage)
- Subject: Re: Vandalism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.013508.14296@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:35:08 GMT
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- Andrew Waugh (ajw@squid.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU) wrote:
- : In article <1992Nov16.021144.7958@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> agrcjb@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Chris Bell) writes:
- : >On its second trip, someone threw a tin of blue paint over the loco,
- : >probably from one of the overbridges. The loco was running tender first,
- : >and the tender copped most of the paint, right over the right-hand side.
- : >
- : >Vandalism to the local electrics is one thing (and their is plenty of it
- : >on the Hurstbridge line)...
- :
- : As I said to the official supervising the shunting at Heidelberg
- : afterwards, they were lucky they weren't throwing stones. There seems
- : to be one or two cretins on this section of line who enjoy throwing
- : things.
- :
- : I was in a suburban train approaching Macleod (on the same section of
- : line) recently when someone -- probably the same someone -- threw a
- : stone right through a window. I looked up to see a cloud of glass sweep
- : through the other end of the carriage. Fortunately the glass is
- : safety glass which doesn't have sharp edges and mostly stays in the
- : window. But it still gave a nasty shock to the people sitting at
- : that end of the carriage.
-
- The Harris trains also had safety glass, but the type which does not stay
- in the frames. Many years ago (I think about 1980) I was riding in a
- Harris when a rock hit the window next to me. I and several others were
- showered with glass.
-
- The cutting at Heatherdale is another trouble spot.
-
- : I've been in other trains when a loud 'bang' indicated that something,
- : presumably a rock, had hit the steel sides of the carriage and not
- : the window.
- :
- : From the splatter marks on the tender of K153, it appeared that the
- : engine was running tender first when the paint was thrown. If a
- : rock had been thrown, one of the engine crew could easily have
- : been injured. The windows on the rolling stock used (traditional
- : wooden bodied cars) is, I believe, just normal glass (David would
- : know...). A stone through that doesn't bear thinking about,
-
- Correct.
-
- : particularly as the train was full of small children.
- :
- : The sooner they catch those bastards, the better.
- :
- : andrew waugh
-
- I believe in some US ciies, trains are shot at. Can anyone elaborate?
-
- David
-