Re: Strategic Reserve.

[telljb@OZozemail.com.au (< Tell >)]

Roy Wilke <royboy@bit.dotnet.dotau> wrote:
>
> 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.


Steam to the rescue.!!! 
Pure Gunzel/Model Railway stuff this.

Want to know where the most potent section of the
Australian Defence Forces are right now.?  Up here in
the Top End of the Northern Territory, a long ...long
way from the nearest railhead.

----Terry Burton