Re: DSRM is an absolute joke

["Steve Zvillis" <szvillis@netspace.net.au>]

James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:3AB72134.10E0C2DB@ozemail.com.au...
> Trevor Edmonds wrote:
> >
> > > You're involved in Derwent Valley in Tas., Steve. What if DVR did what
> > > Dorrigo has done, how successful would it be then?
> >
> > Every group is different.
> >
>
> The DSRM claims to have the largest collection in the southern
> hemisphere, yet it is one of the least successful groups in Australia.

If your sole definition of "success" is running trains - maybe so, but in
the field of "preservation" [as in "preservation group"] the D.S.R.M. has
been remarkably successful against massive odds.

> Most groups in Australia are at least able to operate some form of
> train, even if they are only ganger's trolleys.

So what?

> What does this say about
> the viability of the direction that the DSRM have chosen to follow?

Absolutely nothing.

Rgds. S.Z.
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