Re: [VIC] Headboards this weekend

[Greg Triplett <triplett@hotkey.net.au>]

Hi Mark,

Steamrail will pay the price in time. I see increasingly the
Westcoast engines being used for fan trips. They've just got
to be a bunch of wankers who can't see the writing on the
wall.

I personally won't shed a tear if Steamrail goes belly up.


Regards

Greg Triplett

Mark Bau wrote:
> 
> > From: James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>
> > Organization: Victorian Railfan Web Site - http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/
> > Newsgroups: aus.rail
> > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:26:19 +1000
> > Subject: [VIC] Headboards this weekend
> >
> > I think it is quite clear that Steamrail's
> > policy of leaving the headboard on the loco at all times isn't really
> > achieving much except bad publicity. As a result of this policy, most
> > people see Steamrail as a joke and SRHC as the real preservationists.
> 
> Presumably they have looked at their market and decided that they get more
> bums on seats because of the headboard and the advertising it brings versus
> how many people it turns away but I doubt there is any such valid reasoning
> behind their headboard arrogance.
> 
> I'm convinced that they do it now as a power/ego thing. Pity really that in
> the railfan community they are infamous for this instead of the good work
> they have done over the years.
> 
> Mark