On 14 November 2008, Lee Gates wrote:Hi everyone,
Two new Reefsteamers photo essays have been posted on the Sandstone Website as a collaborative effort.
One article covers the re-fitting of the Sandstone Coaches, especially of Coach 25163 now in current service.
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The second article covers our recent trip with the Class 15F No.3052 'Avril' to Magaliesburg on a drizzly day last Saturday.
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A third article should be coming up shortly to contain some photos taken by Philip Maurer of the completed coach No.25163.
Sorry – there are no Dawie 'Swak Hart' Viljoen funny pics for this week although I have some seriously good ones previously sent in by XXX. They're in cool storage for the next depot report.
There are lots of pics in these new articles so the pages will take a while to download.
There are some typos in the text, especially the one about the delaminating fish ! ! ! (Midnight work again….sorry), and I will send a correction list to Sandstone's web master from home tonight. But he needs to get on with other work now and so do I And rather than waiting another day or two as us Reefsteamers go through a busy Saturday + Sunday weekend together to prepare the Cherry Festival Special's coaches (you are coming to help, aren't you?), I thought I may as well send you the links now so that you have something new to read.
I will eventually link to these articles from the RS website, but it is experiencing template issues at the moment and is looking quite poorly. Our Web Hoster Craig Gibson is on the case.
Thanks are due to Wilfred Mole of Sandstone for hosting our material – and lets appreciate the continued productive team work between the Sandstone Heritage Trust and Reefsteamers.
Steam forever,
Lee
