Re: [QLD] The last SX tin sets

["John Wayman" <trecker@optusnet.com.au>]

The railway line to Kuranda is one of the railway engineering marvels of
Australia. Winding up the Barron Gorge with numerous tunnels and bridges,
the experience is fantastic. I don't care what the train is - any operating
railway is better than a rail trail!

Cheers
John Wayman

Bill Bolton <billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>