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Posted by GDRMCo on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 4:22 PM
The Great Dividing Range Mining & Manufacturing Company has not been profitable from operating the Rail system and is planning to sell. This would leave GDRM&MCo with having to get commodities brought to it by another operator and this would cost less than having to operate its own RR.

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Posted by GDRMCo on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 4:46 PM
The offer is only until December 31 2004

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Posted by Junctionfan on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 5:19 PM
What is the offering price?

Which cities or towns does it go to?
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Posted by GDRMCo on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 11:55 PM
It will set you back $666,000million Aus and serves Cairns, Townsville and all various small towns and villages in North Queensland

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Posted by GDRMCo on Thursday, October 7, 2004 1:01 AM
Rest assured you will get your money back in 6 months. We operate a fleet of container ships so that all containers will be shipped to you and you can make money using our leasing program over here by leasing the standard gauge locomotives to the NSW rrs and other states as we have finished regauging the track to 3'6" so we can interchange with QR and Pacific National Queensland.

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Posted by Junctionfan on Thursday, October 7, 2004 5:57 AM
I accept. We will need to make the announcement on the freelanced bulletin thread.

I am going to leave it as a subsidiary and name it Queensland Transportation.
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Posted by GDRMCo on Thursday, October 7, 2004 6:18 AM
I have already posted the idea of calling it Pacific North Queensland, as you can see in my signature I have already done the logo. Well done you are now the owner of queenslands most profitable rail system. Might I order the new locomotives and be CEO of the subsidiary?

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Posted by Junctionfan on Thursday, October 7, 2004 6:54 AM
Absolutely. I am going to consolidate my other railroads with it.

The consolidation will be with ex Rail America owned Freight Australia and ex Genesse and Wyoming owned Australian Railroad Group Pty. Ltd (ARG).

After doing a bit of research, this is going to be one heck of a merger.
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Posted by Junctionfan on Thursday, October 7, 2004 9:09 AM
I also would like you to be a member of the board.
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Posted by GDRMCo on Thursday, October 7, 2004 3:33 PM
Sure.

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Posted by GDRMCo on Thursday, October 7, 2004 3:42 PM
Might the australian rail group be called Atlantic Australia, or Pacific North Transport with each state it operating in being called like Pacific North NSW and Pacific North SA and Pacific North NT and Pacific North WA and Pacific North Vic and Pacific North Queensland.

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Posted by GDRMCo on Thursday, October 7, 2004 8:43 PM
Junctionfan could you please email me and we could talk about this in private.

ML

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