Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2014 January 21

2014/01/21

2014 January 21

2014 January 21
Well not much is happening. At first I thought it was the heat. We have had at least 10 hot days yesterday and today a cool 37C after 7 straight 40.4 C in the shade :(
So I grizzle when its cold and so do I grizzle when its hot :( However keeping cool is an expensive proposition whilst at least here in Yackandandah, is just a matter of wearing warm clothes when you need to warm up ;)
But I have noticed that my weight is creeping up again. No longer 99 kg and back up to 110 kg. You know it took about 10 days to lose 6 kg and a year to lose 17 kg in total. It took about 4 weeks of lack of walking without changing the diet, to put it all back on again. I am not looking forward to another 12 months to lose it again. The Doctors have got it all wrong. The body memorizes what it looks like and works against you to maintain the "shape" whether you like it or not. So the lack of exercise has promoted a bit of depression and grandpa naps in the afternoon. I have to start again :(

Last night I started to set out the Wodonga SG loop. Cleared the roadbed which has been sitting there since November (?) and temp.laid out the BG.
Cheers
Rod
ugh! apologies for the spelling I had to correct on a second reading :(

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Hopey24/1/14 11:12 am
Hi Rod, first- thanks for letting us stay 2 1/2 weeks back, and yeah I know we forgot a few things ( as usuall) . so you hit 110, I am just 84 now after 2/12 weeks of holiday eating. I suggest halve the size of what you eat, a little more walking and you should notice a drop in weight in about 3 weeks. When I am down just before Easter I could bring down a couple of meakl replacement things I used. as to wingeing about heat etc- to quote old Moose in Albury- "ahh shaddup ! " :). catch up soon- Hopey
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The Australian National Railways was established by the Whitlam Federal Government following a commitment made in the 1972 election to invite the states to hand over their railway systems to the federal government. In July 1975 Australian National Railways was formed taking over the operations of the federal government owned Commonwealth Railways.

The state governments of South Australia and Tasmania whose railway systems were deeply in debt, accepted. During the next two years discussions between these two states and the federal government resulted in a number of staffing and operating agreements being made that resulted in all South Australian Railways services (except for the Adelaide metropolitan passenger network) and all Tasmanian Government Railways services transferring to Australian National Railway in March 1978, the latter being re-branded AN Tasrail.

At first Victoria declined to hand over its Railways, however a change of Government after Bolte retired meant Victoria could be absorbed into AN as well.
Despite doing everything they could to tarnish ALP leader Clyde Holding, The ALP were able to defeat Hamer who was seen to be just another Bolte, doing more of the same into the future.

Clyde Holding handed over Victorian Railways to the Commonwealth where it prospered as a division of AN retaining its VR colours until later when AN decided to re-brand it as V/Line.

My Railway thus reflects what could have been ;)
And of course National Rail (Pacific National) has no place in my little scenario. Australian National was never privatised and has continually taken East Coast loads off the Highways. As well many branch lines were upgraded and Whitlam's policy of decentralisation actually moved employment to towns with a ready pool of workers, which of course took the pressure of Melbourne which was starting to expand as bush kids moved away from the Country in search of education and employment ( just as Gough Whitlam envisaged it would do)
Rod Young

Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!

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