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NSW Rail Rambler: October 2014
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Friday, October 24, 2014. Travels with and in Uncle Sam. Over nearly a hundred posts on this blog I think I may have displayed a fairly parochial view of railways. To recompense, it may be time to display a broader horizon, starting with my various travels in the United States of America. This was my first train trip in the States - 3 January 1991 on the Texas Eagle. Over the next eight days I travelled from Texas to Chicago,...
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NSW Rail Rambler: July 2015
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Friday, July 31, 2015. Went down to the local station this morning to watch the star attraction of the NSW heritage railway scene steam by on its way to Botany. Anyway, before I load up this morning's proceedings, here's a couple of 60 classes in revenue service in 1966/67. Both at Campbelltown, both on coal trains. First up, 6002, in February 1966. Now just check out those cars behind 6016! Saturday, July 25, 2015. It even got a...
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NSW Rail Rambler: December 2014
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Sunday, December 7, 2014. Twenty years ago yesterday the NSW State Rail Authority auctioned locomotives which were deigned to be either at the end of their service life and/or surplus to current and anticipated requirements. In what became known as the Great Loco Auction. Another to survive the two decades through a series of (ahem) novel liveries has been 4488. It was purchased for a meagre $17,000. Currently it sits in ...CD re...
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NSW Rail Rambler: Taking the MEX to Mexico
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Saturday, July 25, 2015. Taking the MEX to Mexico. On 2 August 1986 the railway authorities decided to amalgamate the two premier named trains on the east coast into a single service between Sydney and Melbourne. Instead of continuing with either name, the Southern Aurora or the Spirit of Progress, they decided to resuscitate an even earlier name, and so the Melbourne Express was reborn. This is the view that I walked past a 1,00...
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NSW Rail Rambler: November 2014
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Saturday, November 29, 2014. Picton, Part I. Picton has been one of my favourite places. Apart from the Picton Magpies rugby league team, there always seems to be railway action. The hills around Picton give plenty of notice of this action too, particularly from the south. And the generations of signallers in Picton Signal Box always seemed friendly, to polite train hunters anyway. Time for a couple of tour photographs, starting ...
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NSW Rail Rambler: June 2015
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. I thought I should round out my photographic recollections of DEB sets with a series of shots taken in the late 1980s and early 1990s while they wore the 'candy stripe' livery in their last days of regular service. Even going to through a couple of video clips in. Let's start with the coldest DEB set I ever traveled in - at Cooma on 14 June 1988. And a foggy Maldon on 20 November 1993. Time to finish with ...
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NSW Rail Rambler: DEBs I have known - Part I
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Sunday, June 21, 2015. DEBs I have known - Part I. The 900 class diesel train. Not the most handsome beast on rails but they sure did get around. I have found enough half decent or half interesting photos of DEB sets around NSW to do a couple of posts, so this one concentrates on the pre-candy era. Lets get straight into the 1970s, starting as the Northern Tablelands Expresses were crossing at Ardglen one fine day. The following ...
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NSW Rail Rambler: September 2014
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Friday, September 26, 2014. Epic fail at Waterfall. Time for a whimsical look at Waterfall, to give those IMRA. Folk something new to model. There are many definitions of failure, and I have invented a few myself. Here are a few at Waterfall. Back to the rails. the prosaic Metro coal scored a newly repainted 48119 at Waterfall in 1993 after the original combination of 4842 and 4839 couldn't do the job. Next one is an epic fail on...
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NSW Rail Rambler: January 2015
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Twenty three years ago today, on 1 February 1992, Australian National assumed the responsibility to provide locomotives for the Indian Pacific. Prior to then it was possible to find just about anything hauling the train, including branch liners. In May 1977 4485 and another western division 44 rip through Raglan. The difference in shades of paint on the two locos is rather significant. In July 1985 we ...
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NSW Rail Rambler: Candy DEBs
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A collection of photographs and stories from five decades of train chasing. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. I thought I should round out my photographic recollections of DEB sets with a series of shots taken in the late 1980s and early 1990s while they wore the 'candy stripe' livery in their last days of regular service. Even going to through a couple of video clips in. Let's start with the coldest DEB set I ever traveled in - at Cooma on 14 June 1988. And a foggy Maldon on 20 November 1993. Time to finish with ...
