Random Bollocks From A Semi-Retired Foamer!: November 2019

Monday, November 25, 2019

The second pointless installment in our 2018

Nubbafest report.

Part 1 can be found HERE should it interest.

Railfan Police: Please Note That No Perway Was Violated In The Course Of Our Trying To Enjoy Our Hobby....

DATE	LOCOS	TRAIN	LOCATION	NOTES

6-10-18	8230 8116 8130		Nubba	Dn Grain 07:03
	NR58 9312 NR59 97	7WM2	Nubba	Dn Steel 09:05
	NR84 21 9307 9310	7MW2	Nubba	Up Steel 15:50
	SSR102 101	3142	Nubba	Up Grain, Ex Stockinbingal 16:23
	C507 4911 G514	2347	Nubba	Dn SSR Grain 17:42
	NR98 30 35 16	6AB6	Nubba	Up Containers 18:41
	QBX002 003	1311	Nubba	Dn Containers 19:21
	8220 48138	8932	Nubba	Up Ore 20:36
	SCT014 004	6BM9	Nubba	Dn SCT 21:38
7-10-18	NR96 11 79	7SM2	Nubba	Dn Containers 09:28
	NR24 NR2 9305 NR88	1WM2	Nubba	Dn Steel 10:41
	8143 42 23	1GK6	Stockinbingal	Up Grain 18:14
	NR90 23 89	7NY2	Stockinbingal	Up Steel 18:35
	NR90 23 89	7NY2	Nubba	Up Steel 19:33
	NR39 121 53 113	7BM4	Nubba	Dn Containers 19:59
	QBX003 002	3112	Nubba	Up Containers 20:18
8-10-18	8230 8116 8130	9329	Nubba	Dn Grain 08:20
	NR81 43 82 9305	2MW2	Goulburn	Up Steel 14:03

			Compiled:	Brad Peadon

Sunset over Nubba bridge (Glenroy Lane).

NR24 NR2 9305 NR88 Down Steel - Nubba

Macca, Sammy, Aiden and MrX

QBX002 CM3314 pass through in the dying moments of daylight.

NR21 NR84 9310 NR07 8226 Dn 6WM2 Steel - Nubba

Sammy, Macca and Roddy

Pure luck with the daylight as NR90 NR23 NR89 roll into

Stockinbingal with up 7NY2 steel.

We would follow this train back to Nubba.

In part 1 we saw the 'Stockinbingal Foamers Chair' on the platform and half restored.

Here we have the 'Morrisons Hill Preservation Society's' store of foamers chairs awaiting restoration.
Once completed, they will find homes on various Riverina railway stations, including Ariah Park and Kywong.

Stockinbingal station at dusk.

Our week long adventure came to an end with this final shot of NR81 NR43 NR82 and 9305 rolling into Goulburn with 2MW2 up steel from Melbourne.

Thus bringing the era of SMUT trips to

a close.........for now.

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Monday, November 18, 2019

One of those posts I intended to do ages ago, but suffered far too much indifference towards the hobby to do so.
Despite the lack of interesting stuff roaming the rails nowadays, a week camping on a farm near a railway is still a terrific way to spend some time, especially with mates and some quality beverages.
Why the last one?
In reality, this may one day prove incorrect, but having handed the group over following troublesome railfans of note, and the haters trying to destroy our attempts to raise funds for preservation, I am not in a position to actually organise them anymore.
The future direction of the group is now in someone elses hands as I concentrate more on the good years of the hobby, along with building rail heritage in the Philippines and raising funds for kids cancer.
I still believe a railfan social group is something that is needed, the greatest hurdle is attracting the right people and avoiding the defectives that can't fit in and refuse to let others have something positive.
Anyway, enough bollocking on about the misery of the railfan hobby. I don't have all day and really want to get this guff up and move on.
A huge thanks to David Xuereb for encouraging, and then taking, me along for one last hurrah.

DATE	LOCOS	TRAIN	LOCATION	NOTES

4-1-18	864 872 4497	Shunt	Harefield	Containers
	BL30 XR558 G523	Shunt	Junee West	Grain
	8181 C501 8230 48213	Stabled	Cootamundra	In Yard
	1201 1202 4911	Stabled	Cootamundra	In Yard
	8151 8129 8155	Stabled	Cootamundra	In Yard
	NR27 61 95 42	4NY2	Nubba	Steel 16:52
	NR103 AN1 NR63	4BM4	Nubba	Containers 18:23
	CSR012 005	4BM9	Nubba	Containers 19:04
	QBX001	5MS7	Nubba	Containers 19:06
	8220 48138	8932N	Nubba	Up Ore 19:26
	QBX002 CM3314	1311	Nubba	Dn Containers 19:42
	G514 4911 C507	3248	Nubba	Up Grain 19:56
	NR12 + ?	5NY5	Nubba	Dn Steel
5-10-18	NR46 15 16	6SP5	Nubba	Dn Containers 07:01
	1104 1108 1107	4361	Nubba	Dn Qube Grain 08:38
	NR21 84 9310 07 8226	6WM2	Nubba	Dn Steel 10:40
	8184 8155 8151	3422	Nubba	Up Grain 09:16 (Yes I know it is out of order)
	NR79 87 18	3PS6	Nubba	Up Containers
	NR08 93 24 9305		Nubba	Up Steel 10:50
	QBX002 CM3314		Nubba	Dn Containers 16:18
	SCT010 CSR003	5BM9	Nubba	Dn SCT Containers 17:59
	QBX001	6SM7	Nubba	Dn Containers 19:20
	NR34 36 108		Nubba	Dn Containers 20:08
	CM3314 QBX002 1108		Nubba	Up Containers 20:30
	RL309 1107		Nubba	Up Grain 21:15
	NR1 114 35	6NY3	Nubba	Dn Steel 22:28

				Notes: Brad Peadon

Photographing in the countryside is not all about the trains.
While headed out to Junee West, we came across this splendid old shop. That Bushells signage on the window was magic, but there was some great old signs in the window display areas as well.
Anyone know the history of this shop?

Shame this was not to later head north through Nubba.

It is quite (not yet definite) possible that 4497 is the last 'World Series'

in regular traffic in the world.
If not, she would not be all that far off.

Sunday trip back from Griffith to Sydney.

FORD break down again Macca?

The South Australia contingent (Scotty and Matt) pop by to catchup.

Must be getting time for dinner.

By far the highlight of the week, any only 'JUST' got in sunlight..

Sammy displaying his award from the last SMUT Waggafest.

There be one cool numberplate.

Scotty (2nd) and Rod pop on by to say G'day.

The latest project of the 'Morrisons Hill Railway Society' is the restored foamers chair at Stockinbingal. Once completed, it is believed it will be the only functional 1992 Grace Brothers foamers chair in existence.

Trev drops in from Roto to check on proceedings.

A sight that will not be around for much longer given the XPTs are expected to be replaced. Once hated for replacing the 'Intercapital Daylight' (amongst others), they too will disappear in favour of the new.

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Saturday, November 16, 2019

DCM 8027

One of those ghastly shots back in the early days of experimenting with slides. Like many of these slides, this one has sat hidden in a box for a few decades, waiting for the time that their horrid nature was not as important as the subject in the image.

As is often the case, I just scanned this without really having a good look at the shot. I was able to make the number 8027 out, but didn't initially notice the damage to the skirt. Heck, I am not even sure where I took it, but do suspect it could be

Hope Street in Enfield (Sydney, NSW).

Thankfully, social media is full of some very knowledgeable people who can add a lot of extra information to all these old photos. One of these people is Mick McGinty, the keeper of all the spark info, and he had this to add.

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On 15th August 1987, DCM 8027 was leading an Interurban set to Katoomba when their was some minor work underway on the tracks under Macquarie Road overpass between Valley Heights and Springwood.

The set was held at Valley Heights for a while when a breakdown in communications resulted in the V set being authorised to depart for Springwood when it shouldn’t have. The end result was DCM 8027 collided with a pettibone tractor and killed two track workers.

The tractor became wedged under 8027 causing quite some structural damage. The car was rebuilt at Comeng and returned to service in 1989.

DCM 8027 now resides at NSW Police Academy at Goulburn.

Mick McGinty

Monday, November 11, 2019

Because I have little better to do than make low quality videos to inflict upon the world, I have been busy putting together quite a few extra before my usual

Christmas break (yeah, I have one).
As always, the topics are very wide ranging, with the extremely unprofessional camera work you demand of us.

ET Tours red set tour to Emu Plains, Homebush Saleyards and Trackfast Chullora.

Ride in Mk2 Leyland Leopard from Fairfield Showground to Fairfield station during our recent 'Trains For Kids With Cancer' event in Prairiewood.
You thought I was going to say in Fairfield hey??? :-)

Shooting over to the Philippines, we have a good look at Del Gallego station on the main line south to Legaspi.

Another red set tour courtesy of Kevin Medley.
This was only the third tour that SETS ever operated. It visited Cronulla and Helensburgh, and featers run pasts, on train trills, cab rids and the vast array of interesting railfans from the era.
Two part series.

My first road trip was a circular tour of the Riverina and western regions of New South Wales in 1987. I recently found some of the footage taken on this trip and am in the process of putting it on Youtube.
The first episode takes in Goulburn yard and the roundhouse before it became a museum. Yass Town when still in use, Yass Junction, Bowning, Binalong, Cunningar and Harden. Of course there are a number of trains throughout.