Re: Heard in the Railfan Shop

[steam4me@enternet.com.au (Yuri J Sos)]

dbromage@metz.une.edu.au (David Bromage) wrote, and I selectively
quote:

>gunzel@rocketmail.com wrote:
>> I was in the Railfan Shop the other day and heard that the new Ghan service to
>> Melbourne was going to be steam hauled. I thought it was a bit far fetched and
>> I now understand that it will be diesel hauled. Is this correct?
>
>I don't know where these stories come from. Even if there was such a plan,
>you'd need BOTH 38s to haul a train like that.
>
I'm sure the story's wrong:  isn't the real  story that WCR is buying
up sleepers so that it can run a weekly excursion train in competition
to the Overland and Ghan after converting R711 and J536 to SG?

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