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Steamranger Heritage Tourist Railway, Victor Harbour, South Australia, New Year's Day 2017.

Track is broad gauge 5'3". Locomotive is a 4-6-2 built in 1936 by the South Australian Railways workshops at Islington.

Despite their looks these were closer to a North American SD40 than an E8 or E9

CLP11 was built in 1971 for the Commonwealth Railways by Clyde Engineering (as CL14), and rebuilt for then owner Australian National (AN) in 1993 by Morrison Knudsen Australia.
As of early 2017 it has been in long term storage for approx 4 years. Dry Creek, South Australia - April 2005.

34027 'Taw Valley' at the Severn Valley Railway Autumn Gala - Bridgnorth, September 2015.

A Perth to Melbourne intermodal service climbing into Mt Lofty station yard in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia - 2 January 2017.

Thanks for getting back to me, Eddie.

The shot was taken on a Rolleiflex camera so yes, it is a 2 1/4 square negative. My colour slides were with a 35mm Praktica SLR using Kodachrome2 film. Here's one.

(410bS) 012 066-7 Meppen 17-8-74 (T Ermel) .jpg

012 066-7 leaving Meppen heading north. I believe this loco is now preserved

I think my contact at TEFS was Bill Alborough (hope I've spelt it correctly - he did not sign the paperwork, but it was an address in Chepstow,) 

 

 

Cheers

Trevor

I was on a Steam Safaris tour to the Rheine area  (may still have been Worcester Locomotive Club at that time) in April 1974. Unfortunately we didn't get quite such fine action shots of the 012s as you did so they are every much appreciated as a memory.

I'm pretty sure Bill Alborough died a few years ago now.

I think it is a very canny thing to do. People will buy the less popular liveried or variant of model that lands first and still buy the one they originally intended to when it comes along.

 

Roy

A counter thought would be that the market just isn't that big these days to be manipulated like that.

Personally with the continuing increases in pricing I can barely afford one of my desired models these days. Buying one of each variant just ain't happening.

I also think that the wait for maroon Hawksworth's has outlived that mantra.

Hi Dave,

 

Happy New year! Any news on the baby deltic?

 

Best regards,

 

Jeremy

 

DJModels Ltd End of Year report 2016

 

 

At last!

Now the  OO J94 is out, my attention naturally turned to the N gauge class 17 and this is no scheduled to be in at least decorated condition at the Perth 2017 show in Scotland (what better place). This is being followed quite quickly I hope with the N gauge Class 23, while final cad/cams are being produced on other previously named projects.

 

 

Thank you one and all and have a great New Year.

Cheers

Dave

DJModels Ltd

 

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Still waiting here for the Maroon Hawksworths. Farish seem to leave the oddest gaps in their range. 

This will go on to be one of life's great mysteries. My WR hydraulic collection is crying out for these and a full brake in BR blue wouldn't go amiss either.

It looks like history will repeat itself with the Thompsons.

Thanks Farish for the Ex-LMS Parcels Van in BR Blue livery (Weathered) if nothing else.

Something I didn't think I'd get to see again. Genesee & Wyoming Australia have reinstated two of their GM class locos. GM37 is 50 years old and GM43 49 years old. After over a year in external storage, yesterday they were given a shakedown on an Adelaide to Port Pirie empty grain train, photographed at Two Wells and Mallala.

A few shots of the quad Bulldog move featured in the video a couple of posts above. Southern Shorthaul Railroad were contracted to move 90 redundant hoppers previously used on Leigh Creek coal traffic from Port Augusta, South Australia 1400km east to Lithgow in New South Wales. Thankfully the weather was a bit more benign in SA.

Departing the power station loop. The power station had been the ultimate destination for the Leigh Creek coal since the 1950s, but was shutdown in May this year.

Southern Shorthaul's GM10/GM27 at Port Augusta prior to departure.

Passing redundant grain silos at Caltowie in the Mid North of SA. 

Streamliners, or Bulldogs, have been a bit in the news Down Under of late....

Star of Streamliners 2016, built in 1952 and still operational, former Victorian Railways B61 sits on the turntable at Goulburn, New South Wales - October 2016.

The very first Australian Bulldog built in 1951, partially restored former Commonwealth Railways (CR) GM1 also at Goulburn - October 2016

64 year old former CR GM10 is still operational and sees occasional use with current owner Southern Shorthaul Railroad. Seen at Port Augusta just over a week ago, part of an all Bulldog consist hauling a wagon transfer from South Australia to New South Wales.

A train of containerised mineral sands heading for Port Adelaide is seen passing through typical farming country in the Mid North of South Australia near Crystal Brook - October 2016.

You'd wait a looooooong time there to photograph a train.  Especially in daylight.  The Worms (XPT passenger services) are among the few regular workings.  There's more freight but a lot runs overnight.  Last time I came south from Sydney on the Worm we crossed a freighter at Leightonfield in outer suburban Sydney and the next wasn't until 900kms later at Tallarook loop just north of Melbourne.

The QUBE train from Harefield normally goes through here around 1700hrs most days and it was in fact a picture of a QUBE grain at the same spot in beautiful evening light taken a few weeks ago that prompted me to go there.

A week after taking this shot I saw two PN freights in the area around midday although I was in the wrong position at the time. With a bit of forward planning and train tracking software there is usually something t be seen.

No train unfortunately...........Melbourne to Sydney mainline near Jindalee, New South Wales

But still on public display

There's always one 

Hallo,

The poll is now open, time for us to vote for RK(B), RB®........ 

es grüßt

pc

But no option in the poll for Hawksworth full brake in maroon.

Someone better tell Bachmann I ain't buying nuthin' else til that shows 

A loaded Aurizon operated coal train near Sandy Hollow on the Ulan line in New South Wales - October 2016

Railway modelling keeps alive what the preservation movement can't, or won't.

 

I shan't go into the nitty-gritty of the astute observations the posters above have made, suffice to say bums on seats make moolah at yer local "step back in time to the golden age of rail" cobblers venue, not the recreation of the actual cargo vehicles that extended the life of the typical branchline beyond pax service so the line could actually be saved by the people purporting to....you get the picture.

 

C6T.

No not really.

Do tell.

EL57 is a 3000hp GE-powered unit built in Australia in 1991 by A Goninan originally for service with Australian National. It was sold to Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia (CFCLA) in 1998 and repainted in the company's colours the following year - seen here fresh out of the paint booth at Islington Workshops (Adelaide)

CFCLA have a number of 'heritage' units in their lease fleet including former Victorian Railways Clyde built 1800hp EMD S311 seen at the Canberra Railway Museum in March 2015.

I saw all 98 class 33s in service.

What's a rubbing plate?

Do we know if the BG still exists, and where? 

Cliff

This list suggests there are 9 GC and 4 GB Garratts extant at Yangon and Thazi, but doesn't give any real indication how recent the information is so there is no real way of knowing if they are still there or have been scrapped?

http://www.steamlocomotive.info/country.cfm?which=myanmar 

There was a mini steam revival in Myanmar in the 1990s and steam was still seen operating on a (limited) regular basis well into the noughties BUT it did not include the Garratts.

I've had a quick look through the reports on this page (lots of links) http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/asiaeast.htm#Myanmar so far I have found no mention of any of the Garratts remaining, hence my doubts about the info in the first link.

A Diesel-electric being got ready to haul a long goods train at Hyderabad, 1984. I think it may be an Alco, but am not sure.

Excellent catch - from what I know and what I can gather via Wiki this is one of 23 A1A-A1A trucked FCA-3s built for Pakistan Railways in 1951 and 1953. Rebuilt and re-powered as a Co-Co in 1977.

Built for the War Department by Beyer Peacock in 1944, this metre gauge Burma Railways 2-8-2+2-8-2 GC class Garratt was photographed dumped at Thazi Jct shed on 24 February 1979.