Those of you who have been following this blog from its early days may remember DB turning out a very respectable VRA wagon using nothing except dry cunning and a decal printer. Those of you who have only just discovered this blogtastic part of the internet can revisit the triumph here.
Today saw a momentous discovery...the confirmation of a breeding colony in the Palmerston Nth Wagon Sanctuary! After sitting in a camoflaged hide for most of the afternoon, I managed to get so thoroughly annoyed that I went looking for my quarry instead, with much success:
An informal headcount puts the Palmerston North breeding population at 4, startlingly close to extinction. I am writing an application to DOC this evening, asking for them to divert some of the funding set aside to Saving the Kakapo (a rather pointless large green meal for a cat, as far as I can see) to this more worthy crusade.
8 comments:
so are they on the way out???
Has KRail lost the traffic???
Is it sitting on a Uk?
Couldn't they be taught to fly?
. . . The VRAs, I mean, not the Kakapo.
Ben
toll soled the refer part to Halls.
Halls use 50' container insted.
The VRA is seriously Old SKool Cool ( ya get it?? )
I dont think there are any VRA's actually "in service" so to speak.
The VRA's downfall is their non standard door width and the light flooring, meaning forklifts are not allowed inside the wagon dictating all pallets be loaded and loaded by hand on hand jacks...
We had one roll up at Whareroa last season, complete with crusty "ThermoKing" fridge unit bluetacked to the back. When we opened the dorr we were nearly knocked over with the stench!
No good here so it went back to its origin...
Pretty easy to model eh? Just a big rectangular box sitting on a UK underfame.
Most of the VRB's are in service for Tallies or Fonterra...
Drew
so my guess is the VRA and VRBs are refridgerated rolling stock.
when did these come into use. what is the tare weight and max load of them as well as length.
Articles on VRA and VRB's
VRA - Journal mag. August 1999
VRB - Journal mag. February 2000
Word verification:- paripp
The sounds one can make either at the disgust of the lady of the house, or to the extended humour of young ones!
Was Just after the stats for them to add them to the wagon roster list whichyou Sxytrain supplied me with last year
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