Re: Strategic Reserve.

["John Garrison" <corrjng@rbnet.com>]

Alistair Deayton <Alistair@deayton.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > > > 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
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> > >
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> > 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
>
> Ah thanx, simpler than I thought.!