Re: BK cars

[Michael <mk@netstra.com.au>]

Hi,

I fully agree about our wooden stock (E/W cars). They are the most 
comfortable and enjoyable stock to ride in. On the Saturday night at Maldon 
during steamfreight 99, i chose to stay inside the car during the listening 
stop rather than go out to listen. Laying down across the seat in an AE 
(apart from the armrests, they lift anyway) i inavertedly fell asleep for a 
small while. I am not one to easily fall asleep in a train (especially the 
XPT - i think i'll curl up on the floor next time i take that damned 
thing). 

Aside from that, I would really like to see a tour with only E and W cars, 
pulled by either a B class or a flat top T class. Photowise, this is the 
best diesel hauled pass combination imho (okay, maybe an S at the helm of a 
heaps of S cars can be okay too...).

Regards
Michael


James Brook said on 05-Oct-1999 in <37F965C2.69ACE063@ozemail.com.au>:

>    I prefer the BS and BRS cars to the BKs. Although you can't open the
>windows, the ride is better, the windows are much bigger and usually
>cleaner and the seats are more comfortable. With the BK cars on longer
>trips the smell from the toilet drifts throughout the carriage, the
>windows open from the top, and they are really noisy (you feel like
>you're in a tin can). I prefer the VR non-airconditioned wooden cars to
>the VR airconditioned cars but the VR airconditioned cars are better
>than the BKs. 
>
>    I would like to see more tours with the VR wooden cars. Steamrail
>    has a 
>huge fleet of E and W cars but most of their enthusiast tours this year
>have used (or will use) the K and S cars. Although it is nice to have a
>high speed run every now and then, the wooden cars are much better for
>enthusiast tours. They are more comfortable, they ride better than the
>BKs, the windows are easier to see out of and the wooden cars don't
>smell like the Werribee sewage farm! Who really cares about having three
>hours in Echuca? I am not booking on this tour because I have already
>gone on the ARHS/ARE one earlier this year in the wooden cars from SRHC.
>If Steamrail was using the wooden cars I probably would have booked
>because I haven't been on a Steamrail trip all year. I really think that
>Steamrail should only use the high speed cars where it is really needed
>(ie: the Oaklands tour) and use the wooden cars on other tours. As for
>the ARHS tours, they have been more interesting this year and this is 
>why I have booked on the ARHS tours, even though they are using the BK
>and S cars most of the time.