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The sound from the existing set is the default "electric" sound that is built-in to Trainz, which is what I am using for the timebeing.
If you watch videos or go to the monorail itself you can hear very distinct sounds coming from it such as the "clang" sound it makes when it moves over a busbar connector. I have been on it twice this year, and both times recording video with the intention of making an engine sound from them. I plan to go on the monorail as much as I can before it closes next year.
The end of steam on the QR Cairns Mareeba section, including the Kuranda area, was around 1968, according to the following book which may interest those doing a trainz version. P.22 of Exploring the Railways of Far North Queensland by Brian Webber, published by the QLD section of the Australian Railway Historical Society 2004
http://railshop.com.au/prod16.htm
The diesels, 1170 class, arrived on the Cairns Kuranda section in 1959. See P.17 of Brian's above book. Last QR regular commercial steam in QLD was December 1969. Any use of steam on the Kuranda Range after that, apart from that short term usage of the South African loco, was by special purpose tour using a specially retained loco usually from Brisbane eg PB15 #732 and A10 #6 in 1991.
So LittleBondi, regarding that leaflet you have of the steamer on the Kuranda Range; date and loco please plus the name of the organizers eg the QLD section of the Australian Railway Historical Society. I actually am interested as it will add to my knowledge bank. Some steamers visited North QLD as part of the Victory in the Pacific in 1995 and Queensland's 150 celebrations in 2009.
There is or was a steam restoration society around the tablelands with D17 269 and C17 812 but that is the Ravenshoe Atherton group, not near Kuranda.
Those doing the QR Kilcoy line in Trainz may be interested in another of Brian's books;
Railways of Caboolture, Woodford and Kilcoy http://railshop.com.au/prod43.htm
You're right of course, I hadn't actually used the Auran monorail myself but I could see that it wouldn't sound right. I'll also have to make a point of riding on the real thing before it's torn down. I'm glad I bought several HO models of it some years ago. Might be a nice little earner there.
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LittleBondi
QR Trainzer
Sorry I didn't get any screenshots up as promised last night guys, I couldn't find the folder they are in. Memeboy, were is the monorail, Is it in Brisbane or at Surfers Paradise. I remember going on a monorail down at Surfers Paradise "Near were the V8 Super Cars raced recently". I am not sure if the monorail is still there though.
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A scene on AXE's Route . A shedule stop at Hope Creek Yards NSW 6011 & SAR 406 which have been restored at Willis Engineering paid for Mr PALM the owner of Bongo Creek Coal put back to work on the Queens to King Cove steelly
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Same deal with Sydney's. There gonna take it down next year from what I heard when I was there last month. Also heard they were moving it Tassie...
Stevo
Patchy,
Most sugar was convayed by Queensland Railways in the 1950's and 1960's in 2 wheeled FC, FJC & 4 wheeled HC, HJC Cane Wagons with stake beds, and braced hardwood flooring. These were used in all cane growing districts to transport sugar from the growers to the mills.
Since I do occassionally volenteer work at the Australian Narrow Gauge Musuem Society at Woodford near Caboolture. This musuem specialises in Sugar Cane Tramways and Haulage of Sugar Cane by the 2ft and 3ft 6in railways. I recently at lunch break asked this very question what type of wagons did QR use for sugar cane, and which mills did they haul to.
I was told from a fellow friend who has worked for back and forth for Queensland Railways and Bundaberg & Moreton Mill for over 52 years. When he was at Moreton Mill as you asked, Queensland Railways had a siding which was used to transfer cane from the Mill to the railways. They used a variety of wagons ranging from the old wooden grovers bogied FC wagons, and the HC open wagon. At the time of the 1950's when new steel wagons where being build, and put into service, you had the FJC 2 wheeled and the 4 wheeled HJC open wagons that were originally built as either FJS & HJS but were specially converted for Cane Traffic by the Ipswich Railway Workshops.
I hope that answered your questions.
I am just finishing off a few of these wagons in trainz, so I will email them to you as soon as possible.
With Regards
Michael Gitsham
QHR Commissioner Of Railways
Most sugar was convayed by Queensland Railways in the 1950's and 1960's in 2 wheeled FC, FJC & 4 wheeled HC, HJC Cane Wagons with stake beds, and braced hardwood flooring. These were used in all cane growing districts to transport sugar from the growers to the mills.
Since I do occassionally volenteer work at the Australian Narrow Gauge Musuem Society at Woodford near Caboolture. This musuem specialises in Sugar Cane Tramways and Haulage of Sugar Cane by the 2ft and 3ft 6in railways. I recently at lunch break asked this very question what type of wagons did QR use for sugar cane, and which mills did they haul to.
I was told from a fellow friend who has worked for back and forth for Queensland Railways and Bundaberg & Moreton Mill for over 52 years. When he was at Moreton Mill as you asked, Queensland Railways had a siding which was used to transfer cane from the Mill to the railways. They used a variety of wagons ranging from the old wooden grovers bogied FC wagons, and the HC open wagon. At the time of the 1950's when new steel wagons where being build, and put into service, you had the FJC 2 wheeled and the 4 wheeled HJC open wagons that were originally built as either FJS & HJS but were specially converted for Cane Traffic by the Ipswich Railway Workshops.
I hope that answered your questions.
I am just finishing off a few of these wagons in trainz, so I will email them to you as soon as possible.
With Regards
Michael Gitsham
QHR Commissioner Of Railways
LittleBondi
QR Trainzer
I knew it was something like that as I remember getting on at a shopping centre and stopping at the other side and it looked like a club or a 5 star hotel. And yes another story of a railway or monorail being ripped up. Why did they rip the Brisbane one up. It would have been easy to get from one side of Brisbane to the other if they kept it.
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Hi Patchy, the October 2005 ARHS Newstead article P. 410, notes the bulk raw sugar was transported from the Nambour sugar mill to the Newstead sugar refinery in WHO bulk open bogie wagons. Article notes enclosed vehicles for the last season in 1988. As folks realize, sugar into the mill was cane stalks and sugar from mills to the refinery such as the CSR Company's Newstead refinery was raw sugar.
One case not fitting this situation was the mill on the Atherton Tablelands that send semi processed sugar in the form of sugar syrup to another mill south of Cairns. Not sure if still the case.
Perhaps if you were to ask on Railpage you may get more. I did check my books today which is how I found all the material about the Kuranda steam to diesel changeover dates I posted earlier. Sorry but not that much around about the Nambour mill to Brisbane refinery traffic. Some written about the cane to mill traffic but that is not of real interest to your Newstead question as Newstead was a sugar refinery not a sugar mill.
Cool screenshots and all but those items aren't really worth "asking" about.
No offence but your trees look like something from a Sega Master System game.
Or maybe it's your outdated PC hardware.
Definitely has potential though...
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The 1988 picture on the front cover of that above 2005 ARHS Newstead article shows raw sugar from the Nambour sugar mill in grain style large bogie hopper wagons with fitted lids with filling lid hatch system. The bogie wagons in the pictures had the usual under wagon multiple discharge doors therefore an under rail discharge system was in place at that CSR New Farm sugar refinery. Similar picture on P.403 dated 22 October 1988. My earlier mistake was reading the article text and not checking the pictures yet we know a picture is worth a thousand words! The loco in both pictures was 1772.
Bulk grain transported in open wagons such as WHX had tarps over them for weather and dust protection etc so I assume similar WHO bulk open wagons as I noted above for the Newstead sugar traffic, would also have been tarp covered.
I imagine (like most public transport these days) it was losing money and wasn't worth it
Jamie
It was at EXPO88 and was only a loop through part of the present day Southbank so only a tourist thing not a transport system taking you anywhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Expo_88
LittleBondi, as mentioned on the Beaudesert thread, check your local free Logan Council library for the following book as it has pictures and text on these three South East QLD monorails. Also has pictures and data on just about every other thing about which you have asked on these forums re the Beaudesert and Canungra railways and tramways.
Exploring Queensland's railways : south from Brisbane.
by Webber, Brian. Brisbane, Qld. : Australian Railway Historical Society Queensland Division, 2007.
Edit; I know the book is in his local library as the catalog is online.
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