Re: [QLD] The last SX tin sets

["canetram59" <canetram59@hotmail.com>]

An ex S.A.R. 24 Class 4-8-2 is to be imported into Queensland for use on the
Kuranda Range by a private operator. Story has it the loco is currently in
New Zealand being overhauled/rebuilt before being sent to Brisbane for
trials.
This is the story I have been told - details aren't known as yet.

canetram59

Rob Kearey <r.kearey@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
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