Re: Whats your fav loco?

["Garry Hoddinett" <hoddos@netspace.net.au>]

Rod Young <freight_man@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thommo <mjthom@hdc.net.au> wrote in message
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> > Michael Kurkowski <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
> > >
> > > Nothing looks better than a flat top T long end leading with a rake of
> > GY's
>
> Yes I remember them too...standing at the short end door, trying to hold
the
> kit and the billy in one hand, and open the door, crack your head on the
> frame as you try to push in past the control stand!
> and if you happen to miss the frame skin your scalp on the roof, because
> everything was so tight inside.
> Finally the stick would come off, and after climbing over the Drivers
seat,
> you would lean back, crick your neck as you reached for the whistle cord
and
> blew out.
> Ah yes it was 0100 on the Hasler and only 2 degrees on the thermometer in
> the bosses office as you headed out towards Bandiana with 4 vlx for
> Tallangatta, 12 Ms for various places, and 2 VLx and 4 oil pots for
Cudgewa.
> Over High Street, the Heaters and Hotplate all on high, the fog had closed
> in to about 50 meters, and the billy was starting to fog the inside up
> already.
> the tiny long end window was already wet on the outside, but of course the
> wiper blades never touched the glass anyhow.
> after a while we start to climb and as the track speed was never much over
> 30 , and most of the curves were 15 it was a long cold haul up to Shelley,
> and a tough slow run down to the end of the line.
> The sidings were single ended and you used a cable to haul the M's to
where
> they needed to be placed. The sanders on 413 never worked so we took it
> turns to place ballast on the track to get traction. We placed handbrakes
on
> loosely to descend the bigger grades, and we were very glad to get off the
> engine back at Wodonga some 10 hours later.......yep I remember!
> But give me a new X or a C on a SG goods, sit back and relax!
>
> --
> Hey Thommo, gonna show us your video with sound or not?
> Rod Young
> http://hobsonmodelrail.rrdepot.com/
>
It might not have been fun at the time but it count it a privelege to have
rode in the cab of a train on the beautiful and scenic, but now a memory,
Cudgewa Branch.  Its shame the tourist railway proposed in the 1980's never
got going and the Government then decided to rip up the line and remove the
bridge over Huon Creek and relocate it to western Victoria.