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@steamfandan It would have been cheaper to "modernise" the older locos than building new ones anyway. Retrofit them with Euro V compatible engines, higher output generators and new drive motors, while retaining their classic lines outside. Even the Dash 9, the worlds most powerful diesel locomoti...

Not that the current policy is necessarily good, but something HAS to be done about the healthcare system in America. I'm Australian, and while our system isn't perfect either, it's a lot better than the "corporate"system in America. People can have health insurance that actually DOES pay for the...

The problem lies with GM USA. Somebody has to beat it into their thick skulls that the fuel guzzling monsters that comprise a big chunk of what they make in America, or nearby in Canada and Mexico looks bad compared to its Japanese or European counterparts. The Australian, European and Korean div...

@garfieldandfriends1 It's a common thing for most rail operators around the world to do this. It allows a modified passenger vehicle to do rail inspections, especially if there's been a flood or something else that might disable a locomotive. It can easily get off the rails if it needs to

@Seattlecarnut Interesting. This beast is from Perth. The numberplate starts with AK. Those two letters are short for Armadale Kelmscott, one of the Perth city councils. Western Australia is the only state that has "shire" plates; 1,2 or three letters identifying which local council area it's from

Just curious, did you manage to fit it in without cutting the firewall? Have seen a 70s model Hilux with a 186. The KE70 has similar room length-wise. This Hilux managed to take it, albeit with a thermo fan (about 2 inches too short for the traditional metal one to fit

@pbsoko the next step will be invisibility cloaking. Don't laugh, several military contractors have been experimenting with it, and early tests seem to indicate that the concept works

@TheDitchy There's a reason for that nobody seems to acknowledge. In nature, every plant and animal species has a "control mechanism;" if there's a plague of rabbits, the foxes will multiply to hunt them. When the rabbits die off, so do the foxes. Humanity's control mechanism is war. A world war ...

Until this one, I didn't know Kenworth even made buses. Bring her back to her former glory to preserve some history. I would approach Kenworth corporate headquarters to see if they can give you more info, and possibly some technical help. It wouldn't look out of place in the Kenworth Museum, in A...

The last time I saw anything like this, it was on display in a park in Port Hedland, Western Australia. It was a Leyland, but had a similar bull nose to this one. It had a hard life, as it was one of the early examples of a mine dump truck. Today they're dwarfed by 200 tonne plus CAT 793 dump trucks

@ep205fire There is a company in Western Australia called Sirenco. Australian police cars still have sirens like that, and this company supplies them for West Australian cop cars. It's an electronic module that can adapt to any "bullhorn" type external speaker.

@super87cole Now it's about $60 worth of scrapmetal

@higgs2090 No, I don't, I find the Prius as unexciting as any other motoring fan. I'm saying that something even as uninteresting as a Prius is too good for someone that would steal a work of art like this

@Seattlecarnut Where I live, the closest you get to actual snow is defrosting the fridge lol

@TheSteamdriver When exactly were these photos taken? In some of the shots, the rails look way too shiny for the system to be disused. It would seem somebody's using them

@commando7144 That's not evil at all. Maybe they should have told her just before the wedding (maybe just before everybody showed up at the ceremony) but his poor bride needed to know. Then again, so did the people whom thought they knew him. It's quite ok to have one night stands, but the operat...

How could you not be affected by Bree's very nice pair? You'd have to be gay not to be even slightly turned on. Even though it's only a sketch, she's funny, charming and gorgeous, making Skipper look like an even bigger dork than he is lol

@01Cornholio Every other Christian faith "grew up" and accepted some modern thinking. Most other branches of Christianity allow their priests to marry and have kids. Also most don't mind if you use contraception, have as much protected sex as you like, so long as you're married to your partner. W...

Unfortunately we are outnumbered internationally by morons. Look around you, at the smartest people you know. How many kids do they have? Now look at the morons, the screwups, and the generally dumb. If only we could get the thick and uneducated people to limit themselves to two kids!

If I were in her shoes, he'd be getting a kick in the nuts so hard he'd need surgery to find them again

@nagmashot There were huge differences between the two. Externally they're close to identical, save for badging and some trim. There were suspension changes, body stiffening, interior trim and many others. The further down the VB-VL line you go, the more differences you can see in the Australian ...

@flksjljdle03903 Just what they called a style of pants back then

@wheatfields1970 There's a whole rage of stuff to search. Partly because of its isolation, Australian bands produce a different sound. Others I'd recommend looking up are Skyhooks, Icehouse, The Angels and Mondo Rock. Skyhooks were very 70s, Icehouse 80s pop, the Angels being a great hard rock band

Has anyone told you what kind of autism he has? There's a wide spectrum of different kinds. What most autistic kids have in common is that they're very smart. A friend of mine has a 10 year old whom is at the milder end, and she said that half the battle is identifying where he was on the spectru...

I didn't know Vespa made cars, I always thought they only made scooters lol

@dlan1500 The thing is, Turnbull has no integrity. Joins the Liberals yet is all for the Republic, keeps changing his mind on things instead of sticking to a principle. I have no idea who shoulkd be liberal leader, but it's a good thing it's not Peter Costello. If he got elected, he might get To...

Change what he's saying, and Dave's doing a great Dalek impersonation. Although he's missed by most, his humour will live on

I grew up with Dave Allen's sketches before my teens. Never at any point had my parents thought any of his gags were inappropriate. IT takes talent to be funny without resorting to fart jokes and crudity to keep it together. Thanks for bringing back fond memories

@Vire70 If it were real, it stands to reason they'd send it in English, because they would want it understood. It's possible they could have learned it from satellite transmissions around the world, but I personally think it is a hoax

You have to credit the Russian ability to improvise. Their Soyuz space launch vehicles are powered by what used to be nuclear missiles. Now they come up with this one as an AWD bus.Probably not too good on fuel economy, but could get through obstacles few buses could

I can't remember the model, but Kawasaki made a model of tourer that featured a straight six. North-south mount, right? Wrong! it was east-west, and looked like a bastard if you dropped it on its side. Whether in a car, a bike or a trike, would have made a great engine, but definitely north-south...

IS that street legal? lol

Hemp will always be more versatile than any other crop on the planet. You can make paper, rope, textiles, biofuel, and a few others from it. It's obscene that many hundreds of acres of trees are cut down to service a paper mill, when a fast-growing hemp crop is 10x more efficient per acre than a ...

So long as the members of Anonymous don't attack the citizens, and go after the real targets, I have no quarrel with them. I agree that censorship is a bad idea. By all means, censor your child's access to the net, but stopping adults from accessing porn, political debates or anything else should...

I do question just how much of that story is real. The people behind Anonymous are too smart to just openly steal from those doing the least damage to society. If they're hacking, it would be more like a more advanced version of Wikileaks; to expose the dirty laundry of governments, the stuff yo...

The modus operandum of most Western governments: treat them like mushrooms; keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit. Anyone questions you, discredit them as racist, anti democracy or a nutter. Govenrments have never liked a "free" media, they want to censor everything in case somebody finds ...

@canadiancatgreen the red and grey cars already on the truck were Toyota Camrys. The one being loaded was an Australian 1986-88 model Nissan Skyline or Pintara. The Pintara being the 4 cylinder version of the Skyline

@cheddyrod The Big Three have been really lazy in the 80s and 90s. Ford Australia and GM Holden have always built their won commercial vehicles, the only exception being between 1984 and 1990 when Holden briefly stopped. They didn't bother with complex emissions hsing, they just switched to unlea...

What happened to the old days when kids could just be kids? No pressure on them to grow up, no media in their faces telling them it's "in" to be an adult. Dunno about everyone else, but while they are pretty, the images of kid beauty pageants are very disturbing. What's wrong with these useless m...

These abusers could be easily dealt with in the prison system, if they just put them in general population rather than protective custody. Even the most hardened of criminals is affected by the sight of abused kids, and on seeing the person responsible, will want to beat them to a pulp just as mu...