Re: RTM and steam. My personal opinion

["Geoff Lillico" <glillic@msn.com.au>]

Perhaps it is the interstate jealousies that prevent the Mexicans showing
the Yanks how it should be done!

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Geoff Lillico


"Brown Family" <lbrown2@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Whilst preserved line operators around Australia are beneficiaries of
> some rather generous Federal and State government largesse, your
> government seems loathed to donate anything. You had some wonderful
> opportunities for rail line preservation. What about the Toronto and
> Belmont branches? Ideal locations and you blew it! Picton-Mittagong
> loop was a disaster. Corowa has been returned back to SRA. What
> happend to LVR, anyway? All that you seem to have after 40 years of
> railway preservation are the excellently resurrected (not preserved)
> Zig-Zag railway and some Rail Motor operation out of Cooma. Even South
> Australia, the most anti-rail state in Australia, has more preserved
> trains and tracks than NSW. If you guys stopped your in-fighting and
> started co-operating and behaving professionaly, maybe Bob Carr might
> be more generous. I find it hard to believe that Sydney people are any
> less inclined to heritage train operation than anyone else in
> Australia and New Zealand.
>
> Anyway, I'm not saying any more on this topic. I've probably said too
> much as it is and a lot of it is my perception rather than absolute
> fact. But what is fact is that Dorrigo is a crying shame and a very
> sad indictment on the very poor state of NSW rail preservation. Time
> is running out for all that rolling stock sitting in the semi-tropics.
>
> How long do you think you've got before all you are left with is
> rotten wood, piles of rust and fading memories?
>
> Les Brown