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I went through Santa Barbara on the Coast Starlight last week. This is sitting between the cars and the tree near the gate. Cheers David

My first photo from Vancouver, just after I arrived yesterday. I have to say the international arrival track at Pacific Central was a bit of a dump. Cheers David

I'll be staying near Burrard station and won't have access to a car. Cheers David

Great photos in this topic! I'll be in Vancouver in just under a month and would welcome any suggestions for good railfanning/photography locations, preferably accessible by TransLink. Cheers David

A few more little trains. (For interest, the articulated flats behind the crew car are ex-British Columbia Railway) And finally a little passenger train. Cheers david

Some Easter weekend action. 2705 on the loop line. 3016 on the Canberra line. At about 1:05 turn this up LOUD. A night photo shoot of 6029. Not long until this beast gets a test run. Cheers David

There was a similar version of that recorded in diaries of one branch of my family going back many centuries. The earliest written account was in the 17th century and even then it was noted as being passed down through the generations orally. They came from Schleswig-Holstein at the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula so they were variously Danish or German (depending on whose army was occupying at the time). Cheers David

A very dated Cold War joke, a version of which I first heard in the 1980s. The KGB trained a spy to plant in Wales. The researchers decided the name Jones would be inconspicuous so he was given forged papers, inserted into Wales by submarine and made his way to a small village where he could observe operations at RAF Valley. Some months later a handler arrives in Wales to find out what intelligence had been gathered. He went to the address he had been given and knocked on the door. The door opened and he was opened with a cheery "Good morning." "Good morning," says the Russian. "Is your name Jones?" "Jones, yes, that's me. Can I help you?" The Russian hesitates, then says quietly "The sky is red at sunset." "I beg your pardon?" The Russian repeats quietly "The sky is red at sunset." "Ah, I see," says the Welshman. "I'm Jones the Milk. You'll be looking for Jones the Spy. He lives next door."

A main line cab ride in a C17. Cheers David

5917 in full cry. What a wonderful whistle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHGEc2tMUAA Cheers David

This year's Great Train Race. 3265 and 3642 with dead weight diesels on the back against a Tiger Moth. Cheers David

Some great video of the annual Great Train Race from the 2010 Maitland Steamfest. That year the race was between 3642, 3265, 3526 and two de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moths. Cheers David

Some people just never learn... Cheers David

A galloping terrier? Cheers David

Here it is running light to Greta last night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj_4XSumsz0 Cheers David

More of CFCLA's latest beats, the MPI/Wabtec MP33C. Cheers David

The major problem is the Bachmann ROD is OO. If you're doing the J&A Brown version, anything you pull would be HO. Branchlines makes an HO kit of the ROD. There is actually one completed as J&A Brown no. 24 on Ebay at the moment. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Branchlines-HO-R-O-D-2-8-0-Steam-Locomotive-Assembled-Ready-to-Run-KF22-/171068121484 Cheers David

More Chinese locomotives for Australia CSR Qishuyan Locomotive Company, China, has completed a batch of five SDA2 diesel locomotives, which will be used by Pacific National (PN), Australia, on the 1067mm-gauge heavy-haul coal network in central Queensland. The six-axle ac traction locomotives are designated class 88 by PN. http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/australia-nz/more-chinese-locomotives-for-australia.html

One of the few "real" passenger trains left, sadly likely to be gone by the end of the year. Cheers David

Yesterday's ARHS Western Wanderer with BB18¼ 1089. The trip included the first steam train to Springfield Central roughly 3 months after the new line opened. There is no run around at the terminus so 1620 hauled it back to Darra. The train continued to Ipswich and returned via Tennyson. Cheers David

More of last weekend's Thirlmere Flyer. Good to see the pig stretch its legs with a decent load and unassisted for a change. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKoD7KpG1QY Cheers David

LVR empty carriage transfer from Eveleigh to Broadmeadow and return. Cheers David

Vintage Alcos and even more vintage GM bulldogs on an empty grain. Cheers David