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Re: Strategic Reserve.

Subject: Re: Strategic Reserve.
From: Janos Ero <erojr@spammail.cern.ch>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 08:46:10 +0200
Newsgroups: alt.railroad, aus.rail, misc.transport.rail.australia-nz, misc.transport.rail.europe
Organization: CERN
References: <37c92cfe.0@news1> <37C9BE99.7E2CBB65@omni.com.au> <37CB9276.8784EACB@omni.com.au> <37CB9D2F.1B716EC8@bit.dotnet.dotau> <37CBFFFE.84B67C3E@tassie.net.au> <37CC05E1.6AD6@mail.dec.com>

dave pierson wrote:

> > > 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.
> 
>         Costs money.  LOTS of money.  To train, retain & keep skilled crews.

Interesting. Some promoter of the MAV "Nostalgia" stock declared his
opinion, that the cheapest way to correctly (!) preserve old
locomotives is to operate them!

Janos Ero

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