Re: [VIC] K190 to South Gippsland

["Lineman" <grime@dcsi.net.au>]

How much would it cost to put it on a float and take it down by road?
To recoup costs they could sell signage rights to the tender.
Picture it,Drink drive bloody idiot on one side,Smoking Kills on the
other.(bit rich I suppose seeing how the K smokes like a chimney,but then
Warny got away with it..)
g,d&r(vvf)
Graeme
"Stuart Thyer" <s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au> wrote in message
836fke$gh6$1@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au">news:836fke$gh6$1@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au...
> Unfortunately, it's not going to happen. Freight Victoria prohibited the
> move due to track condition through the KooWeeRup swamp area. While the
> chooks tiptoed out the other weekend, a long coupled wheelbase engine was
> not considered appropriate to run over the line. This is unfortunate as
both
> SRV and SGR had gone to a great deal of effort to send the steam down to
> Gippsland, but no-one had thought to actually confirm the condition of the
> track would allow it.
>
> Stuart Thyer
> Photographer
> University of Melbourne
>
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> In article <3855DA26.83B4E08F@ozemail.com.au>, James Brook
> <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> >In the latest RNV it says that SGR plans to run Steamrail's K190 during
> >the summer. How are they going to move the loco to Korumburra?
> >
>