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faulcon1

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    I like trains of all sorts but particularly steam from all over the world. Yes this is an English site but there are many steam locos in the world and different ways of doing things. I don't like rivet counters and I don't consider myself as an anorack as we don't have them in Australia.
    I also like Ford Australia's Falcons.

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  1. Here's the final part and the part of the line many tourists know.
  2. Here's part four. I've excluded Part 1 because it's this video but the other way from Mount Surprise to Einasleigh.
  3. This video is the beginning of a journey in far north Queensland from Forsayth to Cairns. It's a four day journey with the passengers staying overnight in pubs.
  4. A documentary on the Darjeeling Hill Railway by Nick Lera who's said with the advent of You Tube it's hard to sell DVD's now. So he's uploading his programs to YT and this is just one. Some are in German too. The steam engines are used these days for tourist trains and new diesels are used for ordinary service trains. At one stage the whole journey cost the princely sum of 3p for an eight hour trip behind steam.
  5. Thank you all for your helpful suggestions much appreciated.
  6. I have an early Bachmann 2251 32-301 and I only took it apart the other day for the first time. On screwing it back together the rear screw screwed up nicely but the front screw wouldn't meaning stripped threads. Is there any way of fixing it as I don't want to have to buy a new body. I have seen online of people using super glue with baking soda but the screws they use to "cut" a new thread are all pin point screws and the chassis body screw on model locos are not pin point screws. The loco is not a split frame chassis but the first run of the later chassis which at that time was not DCC ready. I think the model dates from about 1998. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
  7. This is a blow to us all and from the comments above and on previous pages we've all come to rely on Hattons as always going to be there. It's very sad but shows that even a huge retailer is not immune to the forces now at play. I sincerely hope everyone there at Hattons can find another job and I can only wish them all the best for all their futures.
  8. Thanks for that info, much appreciated.
  9. After the Lapstone ZigZag was rendered obsolete the first deviation was the construction of a single bore tunnel without air shafts on the false assumption that the smoke would be blown by natural wind out of the tunnel mouths. It was on a continuous uphill 1 in 33 gradient curving it's entire length. It was notorious in service when steam crews would lie on the cab floor with the fall plate up desperate for some fresh air. Assistant engines would be used on the rear and their crews not only had to deal with the smoke and fumes from the train engine but their engine too. There was one accident where the assistant engine finding the task too much stopped and reversed out of the tunnel coming to a halt outside the tunnel mouth. The train engine had stalled and the train engine crew overcome by smoke and fumes had passed out. The train then free wheeled out of the tunnel to smash into the assistant engine.
  10. Here's a video done by two blokes of the Lapstone ZigZag bypassed many years ago and now a walking track. The history is fascinating however the steam train sound effects are American as you can here a bell ringing and we never had bells on locos in New South Wales government service. The B&W photo of a 60 class Garratt is also incorrect as Garratts never traveled on this line which had fallen into disuse many years before the Garratts even entered service. At the time of the Lapstone Zig Zag was all locos in New South Wales were of English design and many were built in England namely by Beyer Peacock.
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