Re: steam crane loco at Chullora

[chris <chris@enet21.com.au>]

These little locomotives lasted longer than mainline steam, I heard they were
popular around the various workshops (maybe main line rolling stock management
had no authority over 10 class stock?). Clyde had a mobile steam crane in use
up till the mid 1980's but the reason why it was withdrawn was the guy who knew
how to drive it retired. Is this the case for the others?

Chris

Stephen Tolhurst wrote:

> Bob <alco@acay.com.au> writes:
>
> >I think you have mixed up these two cranes. 1083 was the one that was at
> >the rear of the apprentice college at Chullora and is now inside the large
> >errecting shop with 3265 whilst 1082 was always at Eveleigh.
> >Cheers
> >Bob
>
> >robson wrote:
>
> >> chris wrote:
> >>
> >> > about 10 years ago (1988)  I saw a steam crane locomotive out
> >> > the back of the former Water Supply Workshops, where is it now?
> >>
> >> Further to the previous reply to your question, the crane loco you saw
> >> at Chullora was 1082. It is now stored in the Large Erecting Shop at
> >> Eveleigh, near 3265 and SMR18. The Powerhouse Museum has custody of
> >> 1082.
> >>
> >> The loco "preserved" on a plinth in front of the Technology Park"
> >> building (formerly the main Eveleigh Loco Workshops) is sister loco
> >> 1083.
>
> Checking allotment lists for 1963-74 1083 spent most of that period at
> Eveleigh with a spell at Clyde in 1965.
>
> 1082 was at Chullora from 1963 till June 1973, spent the rest of
> 73 at Eveleigh and then did 2 years at Clyde.
> I don't have hard data beyond that.
>
> There has been quite a bit of confussion about which of these cranes is
> which.  I believe 1082 was the one that had work done on it at the
> apprentice training facility at Chullora and is in the best condition of
> the two.  The crane stuffed and mounted at Eveleigh is definitely 1083,
> I crawled over it one day with a rag checking numbers, all the valve gear
> components have 1083 stamped on them.  Its a pity they didn't put numbers
> on it when it had its recent repaint.
>
> Have a look at my web pages:
>         http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~stephen/trains/X10/1082.shtml
>         http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~stephen/trains/X10/1083.shtml
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