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Old 21st September 2019, 04:52
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G'day BW,
Not at the local library, so I had to do a VERY quick click on that link and then kybosh it afore me www expired.
HA!
Yep, that be one of the various You Tuber video clips featuring the Erin weasel A39.
More cab footage can be found in the Mike Beckett channel, where I originally encountered this oddity.
The vacuum brake valves intriguing me at first.
Then, the fact of the quad control stands.
The original Crossley donk having been replaced by an EMD, I would also be curious to hear what the original donk sounded like.
The engine room inside body is very similar to our "butter box" 46 class buzz boxes.
Metro Vickers port holes and wall bracing etc.
Encountering such oddities does reinforce just how varied our early railways were.
There was an Aussie comedy flick dubbed Malcolm.
He was an inventor of weird apparati.
One such being a car that could be unhitched along the centre line and turning into two separate two wheel vehicles.
Naturally motor bikes being hidden as the actual foundation.
When being chased by the boys in blue, and having a co-pilot, the car was divided and the two halves then diverging down different streets to baffle them boys in blue.
Maybe the A39 weasel is so intended.
Go down diverging roads in the yard when being chased by the District Supa.
HA !
Steve.
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