[SEL] Does the New Year crankup still happen? ... and its bloody HOT here!

[R & M Ingold]

Good! Bloody sure his punishment, if any, will make the 'News'
Bring back the gun!!
Reg & Marg Ingold.
Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
randmingold at hotkey.net.au
http://www.oldengine.org/members/randmingold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Pavlinovich" <pjp at steamengine.com.au>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 3:07 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Does the New Year crankup still happen? ... and its 
bloody HOT here!


> Happy New Year everyone. It was a good thing that we ran a fire patrol
> today. As expected the diesel caused no fires at all, but an arsonist
> had set the 50' high trestle bridge alight with fireworks (by pointing
> them down into the ballast next to sleepers). I was able to put out the
> fires by digging out the ballast then using the fire pump on the
> trolley. I put a lot of water into it before it was extinguished fully.
>
> Police attended and to my amazement actually caught a bloke who was
> hiding in the bushes lineside watching.
>
> At least our CEO will remember my name now! I get the dubious honour of
> submitting the first Incident/Defect Report for 2008.
>
> Regards
> Paul
>
> Paul Pavlinovich wrote:
>> I'll be on Fire Patrol duty at Puffing Billy Railway driving behind a
>> special New Year's train tonight so I won't be cranking up any of my own
>> engines but I will be cranking up one of our Fire Patrol trolleys - NK2.
>>
>>
>
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