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Yours truly on a VR inspector's trolley over Boggy River,
Nowa Nowa. No, unfortunately it wasn't mine. A railway employee friend had obtained
permission to ride the line in 1993 after the rails had begun to be pulled
up from the Bairnsdale end. By the time I found him (by driving to each
level crossing and checking the rails for crushed weeds) I only got to ride a short section at Nowa Nowa. |
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Unknown V/Line employee sets and locks the points for the
mainline at Koala siding near Nyora. |
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A VOAA wagon in use as a bridge near Triholm, Vic. |
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Sign marking the site of the Koo-Wee-Rup - Strzelecki
railway. |
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Cab of B 67 lying in Greville St. Prahran after being
removed from Station Hotel. |
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Close-up of B67's cab in storage at Warragul sometime after
it was located there.
The numbers were put in for the photo only. |
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It's not widely known that the panels on some locomotives
are actually made from wood. Generally covered with aluminium sheet. But
here's an unusual example of one hurried replacement showing woodgrain. G
530 at Traralgon. |
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What can happen when the panels get put on in the wrong
order. At least it is still readable. |
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X 33 approaches Yarragon and passes through a somewhat
distressed overhead portal structure. It had been hit by a track work
machine. The wires were out of use, but it was eventually fixed anyway. The
steady arm on the near side is not missing. It is still reaching toward the
contact wire, but hidden behind the pole. |
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Time exposure of what may well have been the only set of
boom barriers at a railway crossing in Tasmania in 1993. Oddly enough,
protecting a dead end road to a hydro electric power station.
Emu Bay Railway, Bastyan Dam, Tas. |
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In Tasmania, I noticed that most point lever weights had TGR cast onto
them. But at Western Junction was this one with "Zn & Nt Ds M Tram - 1896.
Nice to see that TGR found it worth hanging onto.
I am assuming this stood for Zeehan and North Dundas Mountain Tramway. Only
the Mountain part I'm not so sure about. I just couldn't think of anything
else. (I've since been informed that the 'M' stood for "Mineral" - thanks to
John MacLeod for correcting me). |
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K '183' presents a strange sight as it sits on the old
Princes Hwy at Yarragon. The loco was moved here after the first stage of
the highway realignment through the town was opened. It had already been
moved once earlier. The road was later dug up and landscaped so that you'd
never know a road once ran there now.
The engine is actually K 162 as the real K 183 was swapped a few years
earlier and restored for hauling special trains. Unfortunately it is out of
action again after a fatal level crossing accident. |
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Former level crossing at the west end of Yarragon. Removed
when the highway was duplicated. |
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View of rolling stock at Healesville. |
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Weighbridge test wagon at Australian Paper Manufacturers
plant near Morwell. |
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Remains of an L class electric engine at Simsmetal,
Brooklyn, Vic. |
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Elderly passenger carriage body at Foster Creek Railway,
Jumbunna, Vic. |
