Re: ATTN DAVID B RE 32'S IN TIBET

[The Morphetts <grahamm@onthenet.com.au>]

> Eddie Oliver wrote
> <snip>
> >I won't contribute personal funds for a common-garden-variety 32;
> I
> >expect at least a 34 to be located before I'll be coughing up.
The Morphetts wrote:
That's a really surprising comment from Mr Oliver
- I'll deal with that in the next message!
>  
> The problem with these restoration appeals is that they keep getting
> diverted from the original cause. You think you're contributing to
> restoring
> a 57 class to working order, and the next thing you know some official
> is
> opening a toilet block!
> (sorry, that was uncalled for ).

> The Morphetts wrote:

> The working conditions around
> the 57 would be pretty smelly if the toilet block hadn't been completed
> though. And just imaging - if the canteen hadn't been completed you wouldn't
> have eaten much while you were working on it either. Then there's track
> to lay, other locos to keep running - geez, when you come to think of it,
> maybe the RTM doesn't really need the 57 anyway!

> Paul Hogan wrote:
> If we're going to repatriate these forgotten Tibettan locos, should
> we
> perhaps open up a subsidiary appeal to search for that prototype loco
> that
> sunk with the ferry in the Clarence River at Grafton one stormy night?
> <g,d,r>
> Regards,
> Paul Hogan
The Morphetts wrote:
You're having us on - as Eddie will tell you,
no ferry ever sunk in the Clarence River. He was there - he was the ferry
captain - so surely you're not saying that Eddie Oliver is a drunk - or
worse, incompetent..........
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