--- InTramsDownUnder@..., "Roderick B Smith"
<rodsmith@...> wrote:
>

> Tim whoever, perhaps you could ask a clearer question?

>

> See Nov.85 Railway Digest.

>

> I had thought that the single-track tunnels were imported second-

hand
> from Austria when the Tauern route was duplicated, but Digest

assures
> me that they were bored/blasted in Australia by a consortium.

> Likewise, the rollingstock was built in Oz. Waffle at the time

> suggested 'widest in the world', but I believe that Mumbai (and

> Kolkata) suburban trains are wider.

>

> Roderick B Smith

> Rail News Victoria Editor

>

> --- InTramsDownUnder@..., "Tim" <mmmoop@> wrote:

> ...Ski Tube...Does any one know who built it ? Was it built in

Oz ?...
>

How could you possibly believe the tunnels are fabricated. The whole
Skitube was tunneled through solid granite and it really was not
built all that long ago so it should not have faded from memory. The
cars are 11ft wide.

Cheers

Rod Gayford