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VK3API > TRAINS 23.02.11 05:06l 29 Lines 1157 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Puffing Billy
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From: VK3API@VK3API.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
To : TRAINS@WW
Hi Pete and others
> Interesting. World Famous...now there is a interesting thought
> used in many countries, to describe what they "think" might be
> "World Famous" , but in reality... is what? Really. Case in point
> is a CD I go from South America, where this entertainer was supposed
> to be "World Famous" ...but "BOING" ! He wasn't ...not to me
> and others in North America. Only in their mind's eye.
Yes I have noticed this "world famous" bit is open to interpretation.
Another strange part of our "Puffing Billy" is that at least one of the
engines is actually a resurrected engine from a spur line known as the
Whyalla Gold Fields Railway.
The Whyalla railway had the dubious distinction of being built with
enormous effort through a range of hills to service a gold mining town
called obviously enough Whyalla. It took many years of lobbying to get a
railroad to the town and just as it was finished the gold ran out and so
the only real function the railway served was to cart away the town piece
by piece and to then close.
Regards Tony VK3API
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