Re: Abt line reopening

["canetram59" <canetram59@hotmail.com>]

The steam locomotive on loan from the Bellarine Peninsula Railway is
KLONDYKE (not Klondike) and was built by Perry Engineering, Sth.Aust. for
the Victorian State Rivers & Water Supply Commision, Hume Weir construction.
It was originally built as an 0-4-0T. It went to the Geelong Steam
Preservation Society (later to become the Bellarine Peninsula Railway) from
the Pioneer sugar mill at Brandon in far north Queensland.The Pioneer Mill
converted the loco to an 0-4-2T.
Regards
David Mewes

<james_shugg@my-deja.com> wrote in message
8j0ud8$s79$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8j0ud8$s79$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <394A32DD.3F378AB9@bigstix.com>,
>   wavapoint@behind.post.au wrote:
> > This may well have disappeared by tomorrow, but at
> >
> > http://news.com.au/common/indexlib/0,3921,tas%255E%255E%
> 255Enews45,00.html
> >
> > you may see a small picture of the first steam train to run on the
> Abt for
> > 2000.
> >
>
> That has gone now, but this site, mentioned on aus.rail a few months
> back, has been updated.
>
> www.geocities.com/bilmac.geo
>
> It includes a photo of V22, back in Queenstown after so long!
>
> I read somewhere that she will get a pinion wheel added underneath to
> mesh with the rack on the Abt sections.  Did she have that back in the
> old days?  What sort of load could an 0-6-0DM haul up a wet 1 in 16
> grade with wheel-rail adhesion only?
>
> James
>
>
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