Re: Rail Adventures Around Australia

["Grime" <grime@NOSPAM.tpg.com.au>]

Bill Bolton <billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org> wrote in message
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> "THE Boss!" <daproc@spambait.umpires.com> wrote:
>
> > Trevor Edmonds wrote in message <7kqack$10f$1@news.tmx.com.au>...
> > >Here we go again bagging those at least making an effort. Mr Gayford
has
> > >made some great generalisations about all Dorrigo's locomotives being
> > >"rusting hulks". Perhaps Mr Gayford would respond to a simple
challenge.
> > >Identify a locomotive in the Dorrigo collection which has significantly
> > >deteriorated since it was acquired by DSRM, despite many years in open
> > >storage. I await his answer with interest.
> >
> > You cannot seriously tell me that the "exhibit's" at Dorrigo are in no
worse
> > a condition than when they were received? If you are, then you are
> > delusional.
>
> Don't worry to much about it.  Any neutral observer can't help but
> notice that Trevor's "challenges" always seem to be cast in such a way
> that it is impossible to answer them definitively, so he can then say
> that you haven't addressed the question if you attempt to answer them
> at all.
>
> If you are not a DRSM member you can't get close enough to any of the
> locomotive to tell what the current condition really is... then you'd
> also have to be 100% correct about what the condition it was is when
> DRSM received it etc etc.
>
> So all the rest of us are left with are this vista of rusting
> locomotives and rolling stock, plus the likes of Trevor who verbally
> beats up on anyone who dares even raise the issue of the condition of
> the DRSM collection in aus.rail.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
>From a distance it looks like a pile of scrap metal,same way it looked about
15 years ago,just more of it.
It should go to some groups who could do something with it,instead of
sitting there doing nothing,except rusting.
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