Re: [NSW] Dorrigo (was: 6042 in south australia?)

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

You are right that I have never visited Dorrigo. It has been on TV a number of
times and I have seen reports about it over the years in a number of railway
magazines. I hope you succesfully manage to conserve and eventually restore your
collection. But with such a large collection to preserve, you need a large
amount of resources to do it properly. In addition to all this Dorrigo's
reputation isn't very good, so I don't know how you will manage to get enough
volunteers when you aren't showing any significant signs of progress to the
general railfan community. In Railway Digest and other magazines we keep reading
about locos and rollingstock being purchased by Dorrigo, but we never hear of
any restoration of these items.

Trevor Edmonds wrote:

> James Brook wrote...
>
> >If Dorrigo put some money into their existing collection instead of buying
> new
> >things to add to the rust pile, they might actually get somewhere.
>
> Spoken with the gravity and conviction that only total ignorance can bestow.
>
> We have spent countless thousands of dollars and hours on conservation of
> our rolling stock. Nearly every piece of rolling stock in Dorrigo yard has a
> new Orminoid roof, fresh Solarguard paint and is weatherproofed. The
> locomotives are regularly black oiled and are showing no signs of
> significant deterioration.
>
> You have obviously never had a good look.



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