Re: [VIC] Steamrail headboard (was: [VIC] ideas for steam tours)

[royboy@DELETE_THIS.bit.net.au (Roy Wilke)]

Well, if go and buy yourself a locomotive, then restore it - or go to
the expense of hiring the locomotive - then you can remove the
headboard.

And why don't Steamrail hang a little advertising sign on the side of
the kiosk car and at the end of the train? Well, why are advertising
signs in prominent places beside main roads and not hidden away down
side lanes? Why is it that advertising space at the front of a
newspaper and on an odd-numbered page costs more than a two-line
classified on page 82? Why does a 30" advertisement on Channel Nine at
8:30pm on a weeknight cost about 1,000 times more than a half-hour
infotainment programme at 3am on Monday morning on Channel 10?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but probably because more people will see it
when it's in a place where more people will look - which is why
Steamrail etc. put a headboard on the front of a locomotive.

And what exactly *is* a "non-authentic" colour scheme? If the
locomotive is genuine and authentic, isn't the colour-scheme also
genuine and authentic for the time you're looking at the locomotive?

On Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:25:17 +1100, James Brook
<ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>Greg Triplett wrote:
>
>> NO hideous steamrail headboard
>
>I thought Dieselrail was better than Steamrail until a blue "Steamrail"
>magnet appeared on T395 last year (It was even worse putting a blue
>magnet on an orange loco!). Also I have never liked the headboard and I
>would love to see it destroyed (I hate it so much that throwing it out
>just isn't enough!). Seymour seems to survive without a headboard so why
>can't Steamrail! Whats wrong with just having an advertising sign on the
>side of the kiosk car and the end of the train? At a photostop near
>Dunolly on the 1998 Kulwin tour, the tour organiser removed the
>headboard on R761 but he left the magnets on the side of T395! So I
>still couldn't get a shot without a "Steamrail" sign somewhere on the
>locos. I also hate the non-authentic colour schemes and the brass
>nameplates that appear like a disease on preserved locos.
>
>
>--
>- James Brook -
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