[Ausloco] Re: Sightings

["Greg O'Brien" <gorbi@iweb.net.au>]

Well People,

Can't help but join in on the thread of this posting to do with 
Sightings - this date.....

844 stabled Roseworthy yard, behind a string of wheat hoppers near 
the old goods shed which is almost to the stage of falling down with 
one good wind...   North of the silos were located 6 ballast hopper 
on the old Kapunda line, with track machines working feverishly 
north/west on what was the old Peterborough line.  Understand ballast 
having been dropped along this line yesterday, yup, "shoulda been 
there yesterday!", and apparently has been a while since this 
particular line has seen a ballast operation.

In the also sightings department, a late running PM5 was sighted near 
Two Wells, SCT was late departing 1130hrs with CLF3, ALF22/25 heading 
thru Direk at a quick clip, whilst yonder on the RAAF base, Edinburgh 
was  Connie the Constellation, due for public over the next few days. 
Following closely on MP9 was CLF5 & CLP16 on AP4, crossing PA4 at 
Bolivar with CLP17 & CLF7.

For me, that was about it for one day.

GOB
EOM




--- In Ausloco@egroups.com, "ben scaro" <bscaro@h...> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Without trying to buy into this too much, I concur with what Peter 
says. In 
> a rail industry where change is so rapid, nothing is that ordinary 
any more.
> 
> For the system I model, the Pt Lincoln Division of AN, there is 
precious 
> little photographic evidence of the regular freight trains that 
worked there 
> in the 1970s.  I suppose at the time, it looked like long trains of 
tarped 
> open wagons would be there forever. Not so.
> 
> Instead, most of the photographs seem to be of a tour train called 
the 'West 
> Coast Wanderer' which ran in 1976. Now this was a nice train, and 
it's good 
> to see lots of shots of it, and the tour resulted in a fine ARHS 
Bulletin 
> article by the late Kim Bird. But if you relied on photos and the 
meagre 
> reports alone, you'd get a pretty distorted picture of that system. 
So I 
> welcome the 'mundane' reports.  They may seem pedestrian now, but 
in a few 
> years,  I reckon we'll be glad someone bothered.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ben
> 
> >From: David Langley <del@a...>
> >Reply-To: Ausloco@egroups.com
> >To: Ausloco@egroups.com
> >Subject: Re: [Ausloco] Re: Sightings
> >Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:37:11 +1000
> >
> >Clearly you have been upset by my posting. I would like someone to
> >explain to me how I can get a simple statement to be not 
upsetting. I
> >was not aware of your origins and may have replied in a slightly
> >different manner, but then maybe not. The BLs operate twice daily
> >between Melbourne and Long Island at least. How else was I going 
to put
> >it. Your sighting was not unusual and I was merely explaining that 
you
> >can see more than one train per day with BLs on it at Richmond.
> >
> >Slinks off to study where I may keep the information to myself in
> >future.
> >
> >David.
> >
> >Peter Homann wrote:
> > >
> > > <Shrinks into corner>
> > > ;-)
> > >
> > > I was once told that simple recording of the apparently mundane 
is
> > > the best basis for historical research later.  After all, what 
will
> > > we look up in 30 years if no-one takes any notice now?
> > >
> > > Forgive me, though.  I'm native to SA, and its a novelty to see 
a
> > > train in the daytime!
> > >
> 
> 
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