Re: Strategic Reserve.

["Alistair Deayton" <Alistair@deayton.freeserve.co.uk>]

> >
> > > >
> > > When I joined the (Government owned) V.R. back in 1964, some of the
old
> > > Drivers told stories about Strategic Reserves of steam locos stored
away
> > > some where in Victoria.
> >
> > But the VR had a strategic reserve, a good bit of it is an open air
museum
> > of rusting locos at some place whose name I have forgotten about 20 km
> west
> > of Keuruu, about 50km west of Jyväskylä.
> >
> > Alistair Deayton
> >
> >
> >
>
> Nothing to do with railways here but I find those town names tongue
> twisting, can you show phonetically how a linguistically challenged
American
> might spit them out?

I don't know if we have any Finnish members of the group to keep us right,
but I would say them Koy-Roo, and J'vask-a-la.
It is a fascinating museum with lines and lines of locos with trees growing
up amongst them and a handful recently painted when I visited in 1995.


Alistair