There is a 'working group' looking at the Baxter extension. I gather the group is pretty small. The highway crossing would be another big deal, meaning I can't see it happening easily (or cheaply).


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QPSR run the next picnic train on 19 September.

Mary Valley are running out of Gympie but are two hours north of Brisbane.

Lean times for gunzels in SEQ.

Thanks Graham. SDSR/Downs Explorer has now cancelled all proposed tours for 2020. The website indicates they will restart in 2021.

Shame to hear it no longer runs.

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Phone cameras are surprisingly good these days. But stills and video can absorb huge quantities of money for little noticeable difference, depending on user skill, editing and presentation.

Every c ...

There was a famous re-opening to a Qld meatworks, but believe there hasn't been a lot of trains to use the facility since it became available to traffic (again).

https://www.railexpress.com.au/firs ...

Mitsubishi walked away years before green energy, pal.

MMA did not walk away. MMA failed, a consequence of inept management.

Like Fo ...

Emus 01 and 04 at Ferny Grove for the last time, 11 August 2019.

[url=https://youtu.be/bAo8_euGJ9g]https://youtu.be/bAo8_euGJ9g

[url=https://qrheritage.tumblr.com/search/emu]https://qrheritage.tu ...

Don,

I daresay the public relations outcomes of this exercise have well exceeded what the project actually cost in the first place.

"I know I'm getting old, when I started work at 15 I had no choice but to walk to the station, catch a train to the city then walk to work. "

Graham, I still do that now! There are plenty th ...

We're all working longer to pay off mortgages later:

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Thanks for the heads-up.

It'll be fine

You'll do great

it's nothing really

I'm not sick

I'm fine, honestly

I'm not angry

it's not me

Check this time lapse of the water rise:

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Savannahlander is closed for the summer/wet season (well, that certainly applies...).

First service is scheduled for March, last in November.

Money worries on sandgroper minds:

[url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-05/wa-leads-nation-in-debt-help-calls-amid-growing-housing-stress/10779028]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-05/wa-lead ...

The Italian Govt has chosen to bail out two more banks in trouble, rather than exercise its EU 'bail-in' provisions.

[url=https://hangthebankers.com/italy-government-bail-two-banks/]https://hangthe ...

Like Pan Am, sold off all the profitable bits and then promptly went broke.

Imu's 106 and 108 noted on an afternoon service to Cleveland.

The Cooper is sighted!

Mark, apologies for not seeing your post, I've even to so many of these testing sessions I've forgotten which type of testing it was.

QR have different types of testing. In one type you have a comp ...

Eidsvold?

Millmerran? Although the soil looks more like Cecil Plains.

Arhs were fortunate to have permision for the steamers to operate, given all the fire bans. I'm reliably told that sdsr will be forced to use diesel power for their run to Toowoomba.

https://www.yo ...

[quote=don_dunstan]Missed the main news story of the day until just then - [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-06/anz-lifts-variable-mortgate-rates/10208852]ABC.

[i]ANZ has become the second m ...