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Semi Retired Foamer

A random selection of new videos for your viewing displeasure.

Mascot Level Crossing
A chance encounter with a train near midnight.
In coming months this crossing will be replaced by a new road
underbridge and will be closed.

Late 80s view of  a  lovely sounding ALCo 44 class passing Demondrille
signalbox on an up wheat train.
Riverina region of New South Wales.

MRT3 at Mandaluyong (near Boni station).

A short ride on the MRT3 from Boni to Ortigas.
Enjoy the video that has caused offence to one person who believes people should not be in railway videos. No easy task in Manila.
Videos that cause offence - Those are my favourite kind.

Tutuban Station in Manila.
If you love GE locomotives, you will love this (maybe).
Actually, odds are something may offend you, maybe the leaves are too green, or the sounds too great. Who knows what offends people in 2019.

Enjoy.......or not, it is your choice. :-)

The 'ALCo' Motorcade Of

A Lifetime.
1998
I had planned to sit down over a couple of beverages and write up an extended report on this fantastic long weekend motorcade up to Brisbane and Murwillumbah.
However another recent email attack on myself, followed by similar aimed at others by insignificant railfans, on irrelevant railway hate forums, has again left me feeling largely unmotivated. Of course, everyone knows that this is their aim, however, it is good that everyone does now what is happening.
This tour was probably one of the biggest ALCo events run by the 'Rail Transport Museum' since the museum restored 4490 and 4520 to active service.
  The tour was to operate from Sydney to Brisbane, via Fishermans Island (this diversion cancelled due to a massive storm taking out the local signalling.

In Brisbane, there was a local dinner trip to Gatton run, utilizing the restored 1009 (sse photo below).
We chased this dinner tour, then did a quick return run to Toowoomba (Willowburn Depot), before heading back to Gatton for a night time motorcade back to Brissie.

The tour would then resume from Greenbank the day after, heading back south to Casino, before being joined by 'Northern Rivers Railroad' locomotive 42109 for a run out along the now mostly closed line to Murwillumbah.
This beautiful line was probably the highlight of the trip, more so now that it is closed and likely to be turned into one of them vile rail train things.

Along for the trip were David Xuereb (above) and Motive Power supremo Stuart Ellis (seen below). We decided to wear out  a rented Pulsar, rather than any of our cars.

Sadly, the final day came along far too fast and we found ourselves on the final stretch back from Casino to the Hunter again. The further south we got, the more fans joined in the chase.
It was still a good time to be in the hobby and it was a long weekend that still rates as probably the best I have ever had.

Thanks to David and Stuart for being part of a great weekend away, thanks also to the many fans we also met along the way.
The railway hobby has certainly degenerated into something disgusting and full of hate, but at least we have memories of the better days that we leave behind.
Best of all, we still have ALCo locomotives.

Come Join The Fun Of This Event!

TENTERFIELD STATION MUSEUM

Thank you to all the people at the 'Tenterfield  Railway Station Museum'  who work so hard and made me feel welcome during my visit.
If travelling somewhere via the New England Highway, you would be doing yourself a great injustice if you did not stop by and look at what these guys have achieved.

Website

Facebook Page

Wikipedia

I shall aim to put up more shots from the visit shortly.

The next installment in our 48 class series as we continue our efforts to inflict over 100 mostly unneeded shots on an unsuspecting world.
Thanks to everyone for your lack of positive feedback on these wonderful, Goodwin built, ALCo locomotives that have served 'New South Wales', and elsewhere, for many decades.
The largest single class of diesel locomotive in Australian railway history and quite truly have were the backbone of the NSW railways.
Enjoy, or not enjoy, that choice is up to you.

Shunting Cooks River yard in Sydney.

Delec locomotive depot in Sydney. Enfield yard. 

Carrington is in the suburban area of Newcastle (NSW Hunter region). 

Warren is the terminus of a far western NSW branchline, branching off the former line to Bourke at Nevertire.
Since this photo was taken, back in the very early 2000s, damage to a bridge has seen trains truncated to a siding just out of town. Thus, trains can no longer be seen here in the traditional terminus.

Both Broadmeadow loco depot and Morandoo are located in the Newcastle area of NSW. Broadmeadow has since been closed as an operational depot.
More recently there were moves to turn the depot into a heritage precinct, but this seems to be suffering some sort of issue (the details of which I am unaware). 

This was the go to train every night when holidaying down at Cootamundra. While more normally a triple 44 class (DL500B) roster, sometimes it would throw up something different.
This night was certainly very different, with 48111 leading a recently returned 42107 on the journey from Griffith to Sydney. If memory serves me correct, the 421 class had cab issues and were restricted to second unit at the time.
Of course, memory often does not serve me correct, so feel free to whinge all over Faceook about any error.

The lovely station of Wallendbean, situated on the main south between Cootamundra and Harden.
The station still exists, but no trains stop here and the signalbox (in use at the time of the photo) is well and truly out of use today.

Another view of the former Broadmeadow locomotive depot in Newcastle.
48112 is wearing the reverse livery, while bigger ALCo brother, 4515, is in the ever popular candy livery.

For more information/photos on the 48 class, check out the '48 Class Appreciation Group' on Farcebook.


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