Re: More log loading

["Rod" <comtran@mpx.com.au>]

> >Options include (re)building a loop at Tuggeranong, using Royalla Loop
> >and running push-pull from Queanbeyan to a site 2 km south of Tralee
> >Homestead (map 21 ref P12 in the Canberra Yellow Pages). The Tralee site
> >is actually very close to the long proposed Hume container terminal.
>
> >If it goes ahead, the Michelago Tourist Railway will return the
> >necessary portion of the track to the Rail Access Corporation, but will
> >retain running rights.
>
> >The contract for motive power is to be put out to tender.
>
> >Cheers
> >David
>
> It's been going to happen for the last 6 months or so. The original
proposal
> involved Austrac and having a section Queanbeyan-Tralee/hume, The end of
the
> section on a 1:40.
>
> Dave Malcolm

Freight Victoria thought they had a log contract also, A train of open
wagons had been sent up and sat in 1 BG rd at the Coal Siding for a few
months, before being returned towards Melbourne recently.
Rod