FROLICKING FRANK - SEASON 1

 

This year I was lucky enough to have my ol mate Frank Kirk offer to let me put his Victorian (and elsewhere) videos on YouTube.
While I have a little big of Victorian footage to go up, the majority of the VHS tape collection had deteriorated well beyond what could be used, even on my low-quality channel.

The first season, seen below, was primarily taken around the Bendigo (Victoria) area, and has a wide variety of locomotive types.
Technical issues gave us a few dramas, the most obvious is the timing details at the bottom of a number of videos. 
While this is going to continue into season 2, Frank tells me he has worked out how to remove it, so it should be resolved down the track.
Anyway, nothing can detract from the wonderful Victorian goodness in each episode.

Please Enjoy.

Part 1 - Bendigo, Bendigo and Bendigo.

Part 2 - Yep, even more Bendigo.

Part 3 - Frankie vertures to Adelaide.

Part 4 - Back To Bendigo.

Part 5 - Frankie takes a look around Bendigo.

Part 6 - Love those C class things?

Frank removes himself from Bendigo, in an effort to see some of these strangely popular beasts in action.

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A huge thank you to my mate Frank Kirk for giving us the opportunity to see his rail videos.

Season two will be a mixture of model, and real, train action. While he assures me that the future holds some pretty awesome older train operations.

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VICTORIA IN THE 90's

Yet another selection of Victorian shots from the orange and grey era.

The greatest era.

Stay tuned for much more V/Line.

We currently have enough photos to take this series well into 2019.

SW2 - 475

W2-1275 (formerly 275)

Built: 1929 (W-275)

Withdrawn 1929 to become a W2

Withdrawn 1938 to become a SW2

Renumbered 1275 to avoid number duplication in 19??

Withdrawn in 1988 and sold. Now in Bendigo.

VIDEO of her in use on the

Bendigo Talking Trams.

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VICTORIA In The 90s

Welcome to another thrilling instalment of our 90s Victorian joyride.

This one concentrates more on the box type locos, however, we are making our way towards the more firm faves in railfan circles.
Now before sitting down to your typewriter and sending me letters full of grief, I do fully understand that these shots are not all taken in Victoria. The concept is more to show Victorian locos/trains, some of which ran in other states at the time.

No long a junction by this time, Yass Junction was the former junction for the line to Yass Town.
The branch closed at the end of the 80s, the main traffic by then being fuel for the CALTEX depot just beyond the terminal station.

Friday nights and Saturday mornings would usually find us at Menangle.
Alas, finding a life put an end to that.

A somewhat overpowered train :-)

The Intercapital Daylight Express between Sydney and Melbourne was always guaranteed to provide some entertainment on an otherwise quiet Cootamundra afternoon. By this time, the 81 and G class were the norm for this service, this remaining the case until the XPT took over the run.

Stay tuned for next months enthralling instalment.