Re: Coota-Tumut Line

["Kosh Naranek" <richardcremovethis@tpg.com.au>]

deano <dsma@pigpond.com> wrote in message
news:vxLW4.3059$c5.5092@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> An article in the Wagga Local paper today about the possibility of the
> reopening of the Coota-Tumut Line.
> Apparently with the Visy Mill being built there ($400 Mill+) there is
going
> to be a need for some 60 B-doubles per day
> to transport the product out of Tumut. The problem is the road is absolute
> crap and there is nothing that can be done to
> improve the route it follows. It is bad in a car and torturuous in a
truck.
> There was some potential resistance due to the historic nature of one of
the
> bridges enroute by rail but apparently this is not likely to be a major
> problem. What would it take to convince the powers that be?? I'd like to
see
> that.
>
It would be wonderful for excursions - all those sharp curves - the one
visible coming into Gundagai on the Hume looks a great photo op with a 19
class on the front

How will it be for freight? Presumably the economics of log transport
doesn't require straight, level, heavy track. Still what does it say in
2000 - relaying on an alignment clearly substandard when it was built.