Re: [QLD] The last SX tin sets

[billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton)]

James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> experience. You are probably right that it wouldn't make that much of a
> difference to the average tourist but it does make it just that little bit
> less interesting and different from an average every day train trip.

There aren't that many people who holiday in the Cairns area would be
making "average every day train trips" at all, let alone in anything
remotely like an SX set, so that point seem fairly moot.

>From talking to the tourist operators we came into contact while in
Cairns, many of the tourists who go to Kuranda have little epxerience
of train travel at all, and teh train is as novel for them as the
cableway.

> If you go anywhere in Australia you can see fluted stainless steel single deck
> cars. The XPT, Sprinters, Comeng, Hitachi, The Indian Pacific, The Ghan, The
> Overland, The Ausralind, the list goes on...

So what, many of the tourists doen't come from Australia.

> The creaking and noise of a wooden carriage is something that is totally
> different to the noise you get in a steel car, and that means it is something
> completely different to the average train trip.

To a railfan perhaps, but to an non-railfan, they simply wouldn't know
or care.

> How popular do you think Puffing Billy would be if they took away the
> wooden cars and replaced them with stainless steel cars?

That ceratinly grasping at straws to support an argument!

Cheers,

Bill