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Black 5 from the Pennines [Stoodley Pike].

The Cotton Mill express railtour..By chance I was up Stoodley Pike [a Victorian Folly] with a Woodcraft Folk youth group I help run..Two of us were abel to divert the timings to accommodate...

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Its a long way up..and she must have been making a good speed, early too...

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Cheers

Ralph
 
Some from me:

Location here is Ogden Yards in Calgary Alberta. First up picture of some silly rodent looking for food between rails at the very northern end of the Yard.

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The junction below is located just before the end of track at the north end of the yard. It is so close to the end I doubt it has much use - perhaps at some point in the past the yard went further north.

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Looking south from the same spot, you can see several rail cars parked there.

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On the southern end of the yard there were two locos doing switching.

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Which kind of locos are they? (I know they are diesels :P). Here is a close up of the leading one.

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Chester Railway Station is a good place to visit and take photos because the train drivers and platform staff are really friendly
 
after a long hiatus, more due to disk space and time, I've finally restarted scanning my parents slides - taken in the late 60's early 70's of the last days of NSWGR steam. only a couple of hundred to go (then a massive cleanup: theres over 2000 scanned already!) :)
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you'll find some more I've cleaned up here : http://www.pbase.com/stanb/historic
 
40 Years of preservation....

Halfway through three days of sheer heaven, 10 locos in steam, 40 beers [ for those with a driver] ..Unfortunately this am the WCR 47 derailed in front of me as they prepared the shuttle on the main line to Hellifield. Seeemed to jump the points, to sat grown men were close to tears hardly begins to describe it.

Not usre why, but miracles have been worked and its back up for the last day and hopefully tonights trip...

Enjoy...

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Look what we've got!

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D6953 (33208) and 33053 meet for the first time for at least 10 years! Now, lets hope I don't meet someone in 053, like I did in 208. (And ending up disliking them).

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In the meantime, I didn't know 08288 had the capability to blow off.
 
Ingelheim at 0' darkhundred. Cold, still a bit damp from last night's rain, I've got a belly full of Capn' Crunch, and I feel like all of my ligaments have been torn off, put in a dryer full of ball bearings, and stapled back on.

Time to go railfanning.

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The Original

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The Remake

WileeCoyote:D
 
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EL60, VLxxx and an SCT G class on the Front of a shunt. G511(Out of shot) is on the rear.
 
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I haven't posted here in a while so I might as well post some pictures from my trip to Victoria
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Puffing billy's G42 at lakeside ( I was lucky enough to get a cabride in it ;)
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Puffing Billy's 7A at Belgrave earlier that day ( I also had a cabride in it;)
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Cab of 7A
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NR ??? at Melbourne's Southern Cross station ready to depart with the Overland to Adelaide
 
Some more

The next day I went to Castlemaine and to the Victorian Goldfields railway
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Southern cross Station
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A Velocity train set at Southern cross this set took us to Castleamine
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J 515 at Castlemaine after arriving from Maldon ( I got cabrides here to ;)
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J515 after turning
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A K class at Maldon
Todaywas the day I had to leave Melbourne and return to Adelaide
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NR8 the engine that took us home on the overland

Hope you enjoyed the pictures
Regards,
Brokensleeper
 
@ WEN

33053 is a decent loco, we had it for a while, I managed to get everywhere on it, take sooo many pics of it, and have it for haulage!


anyway, I have had an update to my fotopic.

please visit www.dan700.fotopic.net


sorry, but I didn't post any pics in the post :P
 
I play...thread necromancer!

Bump with content! ;)

Some pics from last Saturday's railfanning:
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After the R&LHS meeting in Leeds, we went trackside and heard an NS freight on the ex-CofG line. We sped to the trestle over the Southern main to Atlanta, but didn't have time to get out of the car to take the shot

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We hurried along ahead of the train, and caught it at Dunavant

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We then hurried on ahead to Vandiver, and found that the train we had been chasing was in the hole to allow a rock train to get through.

That's all for now! :)
 
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Steam Locomotive 621 Blows down prior to pulling its second revenue Southern Encounter on fathers day 2008
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621 Coupled to its train and prepares for its departure
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a view down the line
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621 attacks the 1in30 grades between Mt Barker and Philcox hill
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Later that day 621 prepares to run around its train at Victor Harbor
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621 Waits to depart Victor Harbor for Mt Barker
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621 simmers at Mt Barker early in the evening after completing its Southern Encounter trip
 
Several weeks later I chased locomotive 621 again below are pictures Ive taken over several trips of the Southern Encounter.
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621 reaches the top of Philcox Hill on October the 5th
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621 departs Strathalbyn on October the 5th
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621 Turns at Vicor Harbor on October the 19th
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621 departs Victor Harbor for Mt Baker on October the 5th
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621 departs Victor Harbor on October the 19th
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With approaching storms 621 makes a spirited dash for Goolwa seen just beyond Pt Eliot on October the 19th
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621 pauses at Goolwa prior to continueing onto Strathalbyn and then onto Mt Barker on October the 19th
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621 Departs Strathalbyn for its Final desination of Mt Barker on October the 5th
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621 Arrivies at Mt Barker on October the 19th
 
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