Re: [VIC] Motorcaders (was: V set transfer)

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"James Brook" <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Michael Kurkowski wrote:
> >
> > Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au> said:
> >
> > >It's not unreasonable to expect a small donation is it?
> >
> > Adding to this, *something* or *someone* has to pay for preservation.
Trips
> > cost a lot of money and if less people travel on it or make a donation,
> > then the trip costs more than it will make. The trip may as well not run
> > since the trips are used for fund raising in the first place.
>
> I agree with this. The level of motorcading is at a ridiculous level and
> many of these people never book on a tour. These people should at least
> donate some money because they are currently getting the benefits of
> seeing steam locos and historic diesels in action but they hardly
> contribute anything to the maintenece and organisational costs of these
> tours.

Why not offer the motorcaders the opportunity to pay to have no headboard on
the train - might kill two birds with one stone then.

Dave