Re: Pendennis Castle swap for tasman garret k1

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

hi,,

Since when have the Poms shown us any goodwill...From dropping nuclear bombs in South
Australia  in the 50's to their trade restrictions on australian goods. Go to the UK
and you get treated at the airport like you are from  a 3rd world country. The Poms
don't give a dam for us. All I was saying that  a  poor  austrailan rail preservation
group (one maybe in west australia) might benefit from some sort of "swap" or proceeds
from a sale so it  will have the funds to restore one of their rusting exhibits. The
loco would have to be worth at least $100 grand. Sell it to the highest bidder.

chris

James Brook wrote:

> Don't swap it for anything, simply donate it to a particular group as a gesture of
> goodwill. We should never have taken the Pendennis Castle away from Great Britain
> in the first place. Also, K1 would recieve better maintenece that we could ever
> give it here. Apart from this, where would we run it? As for the other locos, they
> would be just another curiosity without any real heritage significance to
> Australia. We have enough problems trying to look after our own locos without
> having to worry about any more. Hopefully I can travel to Great Britain in the
> future and see the Pendennis Castle where it belongs!
>
> chris@enet21.com.au wrote:
>
> > hi
> >
> > Instead of giving it away they should trade it for the tasman garret k1 (I know
> > it is owned by a different group), or something like a war department 2-10-0 or
> > a USRA 2-8-0 .....or maybe a reichbann 2-10-0  which I believe the uk group
> > owns. and then donate it to a australian non-profit group.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > chris
>
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