Re: Strategic Reserve.

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

Roy Wilke <royboy@bit.dotnet.dotau> wrote in message
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> No coal or oil - but can't steam locomotives also burn wood? Or anything
that
> can be burnt in the loco's firebox, for that matter? Diesels and
electrics, I
> take it, are a bit more fussy on what fuel they use.
>
> But getting away from the war-type thing, the idea of a railway retaining
a
> 'strategic reserve' of locomotives and rolling stock for unforeseen
> emergencies sounds like a wise thing to do. Floods, for example. If the
track
> isn't washed away, the idea of retaining a handful of steam locos or
> diesel-hydraulic locos for use in flood-affected areas wouldn't be a bad
> idea.
>
> David Bromage wrote:
>
Of cause after you returned all these mythical steam engines to service with
the Strategic Reserve of stored steam fitters, you could un thaw your
Strategic Reserve of Qualified Drivers and Firemen.

Bob.