Re: Abt line reopening

[athan <hatsoff@bigstix.com>]

This may well have disappeared by tomorrow, but at

http://news.com.au/common/indexlib/0,3921,tas%255E%255E%255Enews45,00.html

you may see a small picture of the first steam train to run on the Abt for
2000.



Robert & Tamara Howard wrote:

> The Steam Loco arrived Last Saturday 10 June on the Spirit of Tasmania.  V22
> had just been restored down at Derwent Valley's Workshops.
>
> HXP1 <hxp1@dingoblue.net.au.gunzel> wrote in message
> news:394743c4$0$519$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> > David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> > lBG15.280$b%6.683804@news0.optus.net.au">news:lBG15.280$b%6.683804@news0.optus.net.au...
> >
> > > The Abt line at Queenstown will be reopened briefly on Thursday
> afternoon
> > > when two steam engines on loan from the Geelong Railway Preservation
> > > Society test the first half a kilometre of new line from Queenstown.
> >
> > > http://www.abc.net.au/news/regionals/tas/monthly/regtas-13jun2000-6.htm
> >
> > I had heard about Klondyke going south, which is the second loco?  And
> when
> > did they travel south?
> >
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> >