Re: Better use of restored rail equipment

[John Coyle <nospam@newsranger.com>]

In article <3af2ab25$0$25464$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>, Mark Pearson
says...
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>I traveled in northern QLD a bit.
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>Have they ever thought about using some of the cane tracks and locos for the
>tourists when they weren't being used for hauling cane??
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>There's some beautiful parts of the coast that you can never see by road.
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>Mark P
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>Mark, and all. I have thought about having a passenger car atached to cane trains! Any rail fan WOULD think of that idea, when he is watching a cane train roll down the street in Nambour. A case of, "what if. . . " In fact, I wonder WHY the sugar companies don't try and get the revenue that MUST be generated by adding one or two passenger cars to their trains. I am amazed at the silly excuses that "authorities" come up with as to WHY it isn't possible to do a suggested thing. I suggested that QR operate a through train from Brisbane to Longreach, instead of running the "Capricornian" and "Midlander". My idea WAS accepted, resulting in the "Spirit of the Outback". But, when I suggested to another QR manager, that the train SHOULD have a "Motorail" car, I was given a very firm "NO". But, three moths later, when the train was launched, a MOTORAIL waggon wa on the train!