Re: Ropes Creek Branch.

["chris@enet21.com.au" <chris@enet21.com.au>]

ha, ha, seriously though, does it go or just sit up there, does Dorrigo have
any plans for acquiring more locos? or do they have a cut off date, say 1970
for example. I heard that the rival group have requested 1919 recently (why
the delay?), the same group apparently used to pay $18 a sleeper (new) but
their supplier has retired, imagine the cost of resleepering 5 to 10 km of
the line. The only real way of rebuilding the Dorrigo line would be bulldose
the existing line and relay it from scratch. I reckon the GMR should take
their loco and stock and run to the nearest capital city to set up their
operation before the track maintanence costs eats them up.


Chris


Michael Kurkowski wrote:

> Rust.
>
> chris@enet21.com.au <chris@enet21.com.au> said:
>
> >what does it do at Dorrigo?
> >
> >Chris Stratton wrote:
> >
> >> That was the Clyde 0-6-0 of 1958 which first went to the Mountain High
> >> Railway at Tumut and was then purchased by Dorrigo Steam Railway &
> >> Museum. The loco is now at Dorrigo.