Re: steam tour? you're kidding!

["Tim Arnot" <timarnot@bigpond.com>]

Darren Yates <dyates@pnc.com.au> wrote in article
<364be38b.0@occy.pnc.com.au>...
> It may well have been marketed as the steam tour for the enthusiast,
Bevan,
> but I wouldn't call a tour where half the journey is by diesel one for
> "steam enthusiasts".
> Being dragged through the night by diesels to nowhere, then to be dragged
> back to Goulburn for breakfast is not the best way to utilise one's spare
> cash.
> If you're going to do a steam tour, make it all-steam not just a token
show.
> A tripple-header up Molonglo Gorge would have been great but a day trip
to
> Bathurst behind two chartered 38s would certainly have been better and I
> think would have had more support.

How do you turn the locos at Bathurst?
 
> It goes back to the problem that the RTM has not managed it steam
resources
> well enough to enable full steam tours to take place any longer.
> Argue all you want, but the fact remains: the RTM does not have a steam
loco
> that can go from Sydney to Goulburn.... and THAT is a shame for steam
> enthusiasts.

It is a reflection of the finances of the operation too!

These days, money is what talks, whether we like it or not.

The steam enthusiasts referred to all 'cage the trains, not ride on them.

Tim