Re: Some interesting Rail Facts.

["Lineman" <grime@dcsi.net.au>]

"Rod" <freight_man@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Don't worry Maurie
> > FA will inherit the lot with in a very short time given there
spectacular
> > rise and rise so far.
> > Today Victoria
> > Tomorrow Australia
> > Graeme
>
> This is my guess, [no that's wrong!...I mean a wish list! ]
> My Boss has obviously heard of people like me! and keeps his Commercial
> Decisions Close to his chest, but......
> I have heard that the NEW BIG RAIL AMERICA is on a roll and is keen to
keep
> the momentum up in the US and elsewhere.
> Next Railway for sale in Aus. will now certainly be WAGR. Freight Corp
will
> bleed, but the State Goverment will stop them bidding, or at least pull
them
> out before the Sale goes ahead. National Rail is busy sorting their own
> problems out, and will not bid for WAGR. I think that RA is now big enough
> to roll Wiscon Central, and anyone else that might try to get WAGR,
> including CRT and SCT, and a Consortium of Truckers including Linfox and
> Tolls.
> With WAGR under its belt, National Rail should be next, and then go for
> ARTC, and will heads roll there, they are a moronic bunch of
obsructionists,
> and any dickhead from Mont Park would do a better job than they at this
> moment!
Yep those Mont parkers know how to stop a train in a short distance,only
trouble is they havnt worked out how to survive the impact....in one piece
(very black humour)
> I don't know what the Feds will think about this...but a little voice
keeps
> telling me, they will be worried about the 'monopoly' that could form.
Perhaps FA could argue that ANR was a fairly large monopopoly in its time
and probably was not big enough.My opinion is/was they should have gone all
the way and absorbed all state systems.
Then Johhnie could have flogged it off to  the mums and dads and installed
FA to manage the show.
Imagine 3 pen pushers in Melbourne handleling all the paper work for  the
entire country . (just about manage it I think)
> After all the arguments are over,'the good old boys' will probably sit in
their
> armchairs in the Melbourne Club and decide to split National Rail down the
> middle, and divide their assetts between Freight Australia [or whatever we
> call ourselves next month] and Freight Corp.      Hows them cookies
> people............
Puffing Billy has announced that passenger figures are down for the
summer,perhaps FA could  get a foot in the door there too.g,d&r
> ps dont bother I am turning the puter off for a month ;o)
Me too ;-);-)
Graeme
>