Re: 6039's horror day [was 6029 thread]

["Darren Yates" <dyates@pnc.com.au>]

I also remember a young bearded Dennis Rittson in his white Kingswood
stationwagon bolting around the grades chasing 6042 en route to Forbes.
I was with my father recording and ten years old at the time.
Darren.

Darren Yates wrote in message <377aac00.0@occy.pnc.com.au>...
>Sorry all, I assumed it had gone to Dorrigo based on info from the DSR&M
web
>site
>http://www.ozemail.com.au/~dsrm/Newlist1.gif
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>If you look at the loco list, it includes 6042. I assumed they had already
>moved it.
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>6042 wasn't in great condition when it arrived at Forbes.
>Climbing up Wombiana on its delivery trip with 5367 on 30 June 1979, it
blew
>what I think was a piston ring. It also had tapping on one or two of its
>external steam pipes as I recall too.
>Would have been a brilliant crisp early morning (5:30am) recording if it
>hadn't been for silly Farmer Brown thinking we were there to russle some of
>his cows... After harrassing "us" as the train was approaching, he got
>bogged on his own land.
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>6039 might be in good condition but it did a trip to Mt. Thorley in around
>22 July 1978 that nearly ruined it.
>They had all sorts of problems getting up to Mt. Thorley through various
>reasons and once they arrived at Mt. Thorley, the colliery manager
>apparently told the tour train managers to get that bucket of junk out of
>his colliery.
>So without watering they were forced to turn around and leave.
>By the return train reached Singleton, the water situation was critical.
>I have a nice recording of it climbing the grade, stopping, people on the
>train screaming out "we want to go home" and then starting off the 1 in 60
>grade. It will appear on a future Firebox Recordings CD.
>Not long after that, they were forced to drop the fire as they'd run out of
>water.
>I last saw the train being dragged back through Thornton en route to
>Newcastle.
>Ahhh, the memories of childhood...
>Darren.
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