Re: [QLD] The last SX tin sets

[Rob Kearey <r.kearey@mailbox.uq.edu.au>]

James Brook wrote:

> > When I was in Cairns earlier this year there was one SX set being
> > renovated for some sort of private tourist/excursion use.

> I was up in Cairns for the QR heritage tour. The tin set is being refurbished
> for use with a south african steam locomotive

Wow. Where? QR still has quite a few steam engines in good order about,
so why use the Seff Efrican? Is it a case of being cheaper to import a
running engine than to restore a native one?

> > A tour operator also told us that the existing wood Kuranda cars had
> > been creating maintenance headache for QR for a long time and that
> > something would have to be done about their replacements soon.

> That would wreck the kuranda line as a tourist attraction. Would you rather go
> up that line in wooden cars or those stainless steel cars? I think the wooden
> cars are much more of a tourist attraction as they are something completely
> different.

I was under the impression (gained in aus.rai) that the frames and
bogies of a pair of SX sets would be used with new timber-fascia'd
bodies for the Kuranda train. The SX frames for the strength and
durability that the wooden bodied cars lack, and the timber for the
"Heritage Look" (tm).

> - James Brook -

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