Re: Tas. 'V's & '10's - (was Out of Puff at Puff!! (Slightly OOD))

["Adam Dunning" <adamdunning@start.com.au>]

Like I have said, they are no longer running and they are not Cooks
Constructions.  See my other post on this topic.

Adam.

"Steve Zvillis" <szvillis@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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> > I've always been a fan of the old TGR V class, and given that many of
its
> > members have found new roles right across Australia on tourist/preserved
> > lines
>
> Ripped off from the Tassie preservation groups who wanted them but lost
them
> to greedy rich interstate mobs who should keep their hands off other
peoples
> stuff and look after their own gear!
>
> > What's PBR's assessment of D21 (V12)? How does it perform, is it popular
> > amongst the drivers,
>
> Hopefully shithouse and hopefully very unpopular
>
> >any other comment? Why the number 21?
>
> 12 backwards?
>
> > As an aside, I heard recently that the Zig Zag railway in NSW have sent
> > their  V class (V13)
>
> obtained by dubious means from some joker who had it on his property but
> didn't own it.
>
> >  back to Tasmania, to work on the Abt Railway, from whence it
> > originally came.  But apparently they're getting two of the ex Emu Bay
> > Railway 10 class diesels,
>
> In another shonky deal with that arsehole "Dodgy" Roger Smith (Abt
> (Shambles)Railway) who has already stolen wagons that were allocated to
> other preservation groups and wrecked them, as well as stealing a
turntable
> from the community group who were looking after it at the location it came
> from. Now he has screwed Tassie volunteer groups again by shafting them in
a
> pathetic deal  with Zig Zag, who, if they wanted Walkers built diesel
> hydraulics, had plenty of opportunity to get either Q.R. "DH"s (to match
the
> other stuff they have ripped off from Queensland) or NSWGR "73"s matched
> with "DH" bogies. They would have at least been compatible (air braked)
> which the "10"s are not!
>
> > which of course are cousins of PBR's ex-QR D22. Has PBR
> > explored the possibility of obtaining one of the two 10 class that are
> still
> > in storage in Burnie, since the Hellyer branch line closed?
>
> P.B.R. - KEEP YOUR EYES AND HANDS OFF the remaining "10"s. They are none
of
> your business and nothing to do with you. If P.B.R. want another diesel
> hydraulic, some of the Queensland sugar mills have spare "DH's and "73"s
> they haven't converted yet and probably wont. Then there's the narrow
guage
> "DH"s that Cook's Constructions are running at Yallourn.
>
> > Would you guys
> > want another "large" diesel?
>
> Stick to narrow (LESS than 3'6") guage steam!
>
> > Any idea what one would cost?
>
> $50,000 - which is why Tassie groups were priced out of contention.
>
> > Maybe a deal could be struck whereby ex Mt lyell Abt Mo.5 steam loco
could
> end up back in
> > Tassie,
>
> Keep MLMRCo. Abt No. 5 in Victoria! DO NOT let the Abt Railway get it and
> wreck it like they did to Bellarines "Klondyke". As far as I am concerned
> both the Mt Lyell No. 5, the Fyansford Beyer Garratt etc. should go to
> Bellarine Peninsula Rlwy. as should the A.S.G. (G33) at Newport.
>
> > in exchange for a diesel (sorry, sensitive topic I know)!
>
> You bet its a sensative topic (but not for the reason you were
expecting!!)
> >
> > Cheers, thanx again
> >
> > James
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Z.
> >
>
>