The Semi-Retired Foamer has been a railfan since he was around 5 years old, oh yes a very young age, an age when one really should avoid being involved with the gunzel community to any great extent. A few rather unsavoury people bringing that fact home.
After a few decades of train chasing, one decided to break with protocol and get married, thus leading to a severe cut in railfan activity.
Subsequent dealings with hate breeders, lunatics, mental defectives and self-appointed preservation overlords lead to an even greater decrease in my hobby participation.
However things have changed thanks to our small group of trusted mates, interest has returned, and now I have become a bit more involved yet again..
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 Over the years I have tried my best to further both the hobby, as well as the friendships that it brings. I have done this by setting up proactive groups both here in Australia, as well as the Philippines. It is with huge honour that I am often considered the founding father of the railfan hobby in the Philippines (my second home).
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I don't take the hobby too seriously and I am a friend to anyone who is good and genuine. But never forgive those who have used their hate to destroy my hobby or hurt the friends within it.

Let's Make The Hobby Great Again!
I aim to share the era that I considered mine, the 80s and 90s. I also like to help promote, and even raise funds for, the various heritage societies that keep the era alive
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All are available for FREE at our ALR WEBSITE.




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Monday, August 10, 2020

 Random Buses Pt2

Rowes Plumpton Bus Depot.

M/O 7376 outside the Rowes Depot.

She would later go to 'Brisbane Bus Lines', then in 2015 to 'Shellharbour City Tour Coaches'.

A more modern day shot.
2623-ST on South Parade at Campsie.
A couple of shots of the former 'Joe's Airport Parking' shuttle bus, taken while I was doing some promotional work for them.
Taken down where today's Shep's Mound is located.

As for the planes:
QANTAS VH-ZXG - 767-336(ER)
1992: Built by Boeing for British Airways
2000: To QANTAS until 2013
2014: KMW Leasing
2014: Dynamic Airways
2018: Eastern Airlines
Still in service.

 Japan Airlines JA8186 747-300
Scrapped 2015

Preserved bus, ex-Hong Kong, seen at St James during Australia Day celebrations a few years ago.
3203, alongside, was sold to an R. Lewis of Coogee.

Nadi General Transport - NGTX80
Passing a derailed Lautoka Sugar Mill locomotive #16.
Near Nadi in Fiji.

North and Western Buslines M/O 654 seen at 
Valentia Street wharf.
22-9-1986
M/O 1895
Route 367 at Sydenham station in the 1980s
Sold to Rutty's of Figtree where it was stripped and scrapped.
Bicentenial Bus - 3048
Willoughby Bus Depot
Bus is now scrapped.
Sugar Valley Coachlines Worldmaster #6
Originally Sydney 3296
North Rothbury
Airport Express M/O-3393 at Sydney Airport.
Current situation unknown.
A herd of Leyland Leopard at Ryde Bus Depot.
Left to right.
1651 - Likely Scrapped (Stradbroke Isle Coaches)
1666 - Scrapped (Helensburgh Bus Service)
1687 - Scrapped (Gold Coast Citybus)
1671 - Scrapped (Canterbury Bus Lines)
3068 at the Chullora Railway Workshops open day.
Believed preserved by the Parker Family.
More Leyland Leopards, this time at Enfield Depot.
Leopards with Mansours advertising, was so common 
at the time.
3763 - Went to Broken Hill, likely scrapped.
3952 - Situation unknown.
Mansours Curtains, however, still exist.
M/O 8165 - Toronto rubber-tyred railmotor.
Fassifern.
Would go on to be operated by Busways and Kingsgrove Bus Service, before being sold in 2019 for use as a motor home. 
Went on to be owned by Deane's Coaches, Crossley and Southtrans before, like so many others, being scrapped.





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Bob Gioia, Graeme Knappick, Lester Pasley, Hayden Ramsdale and Greg Travers
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