You know the story :
if you hesitate and come back later, it’s gone !
I was certainly gone by the next show I went to! Groan…
Since I got mine last summer (2016) I’ve had a hard time letting anything else use the rails!
Jeez, if they’re that good I’ll have to get one too! I’ve seen 'em, they’re around…
They’re beautiful, beefy engines. I’ve got 2 2025’s, both have aluminum stacks. Me thinks that be '47 production. Very smooth runners. I am just imagining a 2035, with all that weight, And Magnetraction!
All things considered, I feel fortunate, and have everything I need.
But if a 2035 were to pass my way again, I can’t be responsible for what happens !
Why would the cars of the Diesel-powered “Botchan Ressha” train be equipped with bow collectors?
That’s a great question.
I need to read that link again, but I think they said those tram cars sometimes run without the engine. Correct me if I’m wrong…
It looks like there was a time before 2001, when the diesel arrived, they were running without it. Near as I can decipher…
I was wondering about that myself.
Isn’t funny how you can travel the world over, and people like the same things ? Japan, Australia, doesn’t matter. Still see hobby shops, train museums,and train shows.
Love of trains, and especially steam engines, seems to be universal. I was shocked several months ago to read there’s a steam locomotive restoration under way in VietNam! Both for the tourist trade and for the love of steam. Amazing.
Maybe the key to world peace is in steam locomotives and toy trains?
I think you’re right.
We need to finish that T1, and send it on a world tour !
that famous 3 cylinder A3 Pacific, the “Flying Scotsman” of the London and North Eastern ( LNER) has toured the U.S., and Australia.
Don’t mean to" flog a dead horse", but I’ve got another Australia story :
on the '80 trip, I was on a coach passing from Adelaide to Perth. The driver made mention that in a distant shed was housed the " Pendennis Castle", a Great Western " Castle" class from England. How, or why this engine was in Australia is unclear to me. This was the first time my American ears had heard the words “Castle Class”. But I knew from the inflection in his voice, this was something special !
Google “locomotive pendennis castle,” I just did, you’ll find the whole story. It’s back in Britain now.
And it’s going to be a while before that T1’s ready to roll. How about sending N&W 611 on a world tour? OK, clearances might be a problem but where there’s a will, there’s a way.
That’s assuming the Virginia Transportation Museum’s willing to let it out of their sight! Could be a problem…
Ya think? [(-D]
Yeah, that one’s a non-starter.
Now on the other hand, there is Nickle Plate 765!
"Today the Cuyahoga Valley, tomorrow the world!"
Interesting story about the Pendennis Castle, glad she’s back home. For a short time, she was owned by Hammersly Iron in WesternAustralia. I met a man on my journeys who was a driver for Hammersly. They hauled iron ore in Western Australia to Port Hedland for shipment. Heavy duty operation! On that second trip, I went completely around the perimeter of Australia. From Perth, to Port Hedland, to Darwin in Northern Territories.From there to Cairns, Townsville, and back to Brisbane, which was my home base.
Some notes about railroading in Australia :
in Northern Territories, the railroad ties are made of stamped steel. They are ant proof !
In Cairns, there is a great train ride that goes over high bridges, past jagged rock formations, and a waterfall, or two.The train to Kuranda.
I have pictures of Queensland Railways’ cream and torquoise diesels, and semaphores ! Railroading has a different flavor overseas.
in steam days:
New South Wales had a class 38, a green pacific type, with streamlining like a New Haven 1-5.
Victoria had a beautiful class R Hudson, with a belpaire boiler, and smoke deflectors. And 5’3" gauge.
New Zealand had K class 4-8-4’s running on 3’6".
sprinkle in a few Garretts, here and there.
the approach is different overseas, but interesting to the student of the flanged wheel.
I should have participated in this discussion but I was away at the Centenary of the Trans Australian Railway in Port Augusta (the anniversary of the first through train) on Sunday 22 October.
There was a display of motive power from Pacific National and Genessee & Wyoming, and Pichi Richi provided steam trains from Quorn and shuttle trains to Stirling North. They provided NM25 and W22 on the train from Quorn, from which NM25 worked the shuttle trains. Recently restored 2-6-0 Yx 141 was displayed in
Thank you for that ! The Melbourne trams went everywhere. I took them to the beach, to the train show, and to a couple of concerts, including the " Split Enz" in Luna Park. Molly Meldrum was there ( hope I spelled correctly).
I loved my time in Australia ! Glad to hear equipment is being restored !
Don’t mean to impose on you, Peter, but if you are able to post a picture or two from your event that you just attended, that would be great !
My pictures are 35 years old. No worries
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