Re: DSRM is ....

["Tony Gatt" <baulko@optushome.com.au>]

Spoken like a true Railfan.
More blunt than any of us have put it so far.

Thank you Les.

Tony.

"Brown Family" <lbrown2@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:10:17 +1000, "Trevor Edmonds"
> <trevor_edmonds@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
>
> >Les Brown wrote...
> >
> >> If someone is prepared to pay whateber it takes; $2,000 to Kyogle,
> >> $20,000 to Sydney or $50,000 to Melbourne in order to get use out of
> >> your loco, why not?
> >
> >The costs are not proportional to the distance. Most of the costs are in
> >dismantling/loading and unloading/assembly.
> >
> >> GNR are prepared to pay much more for a working 44.
> >
> >Then they should contact DSRM with a proposal.
> >
> >> Even if DSRM themselves paid to send it to Melbourne, it would
> >> make up the costs in less than a month and anything after that is
> >> cream.
> >
> >That would be about $25 - $30,000 to get it there and a similar amount to
> >get it back. Who do you know who would be prepared to pay $60,000 to dry
> >hire a 44 for a month. If hiring out is so lucrative, why are there
numerous
> >44s stored around NSW?
> >
> I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!!!!
>
> WHO THE BLOODY HELL NEEDS THE MONEY??  GNR OR DSRM?
>
> Stop your griping about how poor DSRM is and how the council want
> $150,000 to fix up some level crossing and how you guys have to fix up
> some bridge, and how you have to pay all these legal costs, because
> you are NOT serious, are you?
>
> Why should GNR contact you? You say you need the money, YOU SHOULD
> RING THEM!
>
> And for crying out loud, who said anything about hiring a loco just
> for ONE month?
>
> And just how many 44's are there around Australia, just waiting to be
> hired out? Far from there being "numerous 44s stored around NSW" I'd
> be surprised to find any, just waiting to be hired out in any sort of
> working order. None of the 44's that GNR bought were in working order.
> It was pure luck that 4471 was able to be got going quickly and
> cheaply.
>
> Does anyone on this n.g. know of a 44, or any loco at all over and
> above 1500KW, that can be hired out?
>
> Your arguments are totally irrational, Trevor. Your are trying to prop
> up a facade of poverty and dire need when all I can see is insularity,
> secretiveness and a lack of concern for this country's rail heritage.
>
> You should be deeply ashamed of your organisation.
>
> Les Brown