Re: K190 Flees Korumburra!, R711's wheels
David Bromage (dbromage@metz.une.edu.au)
28 Apr 1998 04:06:25 GMT
Yuri J Sos/Melbourne AUS (steam4me@enternet.com.au) wrote:
>Hope you all got shots of steam in Sth Gippsland. Unless the new
>owners after privatisation aggressively go out to get back the sand
>train and other rail freight, it may be a long time before we see
>steam down there..... (any news on talk that J541 was supposed to be
>loaned to SGR, David?).
There was a story going around 2 years ago that the owner might take it to
Korumburra, but nothing appears to have happened.
An SGR member also went to Ireland last year to examine a fully
operational steam loco which was for sale, but I haven't heard anything
since.
Cheers
David