What Will Sir Be Gunzelling?

ninthnotch · Site Admin Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 2340

Only been out the Illawarra way once and once only; went to Port Kemblaargh in 2000: the only loco there was a G class. Rodney Dangerfield

Knew bugger-all else about it to know where else to go.

Picton's viaduct is nice, you could imagine yourself somewhere in the north of England with the viaduct out of the town.
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TheLoadedDog · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject:

Bigged · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:01 am Post subject:

Yep your right there TLD the hawksbury river bridge is a engneering marvel I am amazed at how they constucted it prefabricated, floated it out span by span on pontoons got it in position and let the tide drop the spans on to the piers.

The harbour bridge is about as interesting as the westgate bridge NOT!
Hey Trivia time the west gate fell on my birthday 15-10-1970 ohh that was a bad day for melbourne!
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Bwana · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:06 am Post subject:

Getting back to the original question, I'm far more interested in the location than what trains are coming. A nice curve, maybe a low viaduct, and no fucking trees in the way (but plenty behind the tracks) and I'll sit there and watch the most boring of trains roll by.

If I had to pick a class or two, it would probably be the 44s and 48s.
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MJJA · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:17 am Post subject:

Sparks. Always sparks. And not the ancient wooden bodied stuff either, metal bodies and real performance that can push people into their seats.

On that note, anything that moves fast will draw my eye. That's why I liked the O-bahn when I was in crow-eater land. But V/Los, Hitachis on the Werribee line, etc are my normal tipple.

Steam? Nah get lost. I like a good run-past at 70mph (R707 turned up unexpectedly last time I was at Craigieburn, I enjoyed that) but Puff, Steamrail and the ARHS Museum don't do anything for me.
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VBAndy · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject:

I am a man of steam and diesel background. Mainly gunzel steam but the VR diesels grab my attention also. Ya can bang yer sparks, railcars, NR's and G classes up yer arse though! Bit of a rivet nazi, I appreciate the heritage value of things and as such chuck a hissy when a shade of blue is wrong or a K uses an S class whistle.

Will chase any kind of train if its got what I like up the pointy end, will read up and research anything from the good old days.

Guess you could say I'm stuck between the 1950's and early 70's when Victorian railways was at its best for the gunzels & the community.
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rumbleman · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject:

I'm generally a steam man, to start off with NSW and QLD in particular. NSW simply because I grew up watching the two 38ers, 5910, 3001, 3642 make many a trip up the mountains. Those were the days! And Queensland stuff because of Zig Zag.

Although more recently I've really started to marvel at some of the BG locos like 520's from SA and the R Class really capture my imagination all over again. There's something so very unique about the R's. Awesome pieces of engineering.

Skraw · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject:

You speak of viaducts - this is a viaduct!

(dunno why that image is so freaking huge but I like it!)

The longest one in Aus is apparently that excrescence at BNE airport (looks like a monorail from below). The longest brick/stone one is the one at Wentworth Park Glebe apparently?
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Somebody · The Peanut Gallery Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 304

Ribblehead Viaduct on the pommy Settle-Carlisle Line?

Skraw · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject:

bingley_hall · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

For a long time there it was just rock burners, especially overseas ones because all the Pommie and Aussie ones had long since disappeared. A nice grimey 2-8-0 or 2-10-0 on a freight always went down well. These days I can get me rocks off equally watching the passing parade in the Hunter Valley or pottering around the canefields in far North Queensland.

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Bigged · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject:

Nice bridge but where are all the steel girders and Lattice work?
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Gromit · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:08 am Post subject:

I like steam locos, preferably black, dirty and pulling a heavy load. I like steam locos I haven't seen, and ones that I have. I like QR steamers very muchly due to familiarity, but don't rule out Gresley A4s, Pakistan Railways SGSs, PRR I1 Hippos, WAGR V class Mikados, or even (or especially) your common or garden variety heap of junk,slow but steady, saturated Bobtail T. I like unusual engines too, like fireless engines, geared engines, compounds and Garratts.

Don't even rule out the Victorian Railways R class, the most incompetantly designed pacific in all the world. And you

I like industrial railways, past and present. Colliery lines, cane tramways, internal steelworks railways, logging railways, even tourist railways. I've visited many here in Oz, and I'm never likely to get to many others...in far flung corners of Asia, UK, Europe, North and South America, Africa....

I tolerate diesels and sparks, if only because they do actually work well. I will even photograph them occasionally, just to stop the camera from rusting.

I also like engine sheds. One road or a whole roundhouse, especially steam engine sheds. Proper dinosaur houses have oil and kit storage areas, sand bins, shed air, water and electrikery umbilicals and a workshop of some variety, however primitve. And every cunt seems to dump their ashes differently to every other cunt!

I like steep hills. Uphill, downhill, undulating, inconsistant, steep, steeper steepest. I can tolerate gentle grades, but I consider 1/60 to be gentle.

Whew...I'm exhausted!
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Bigged · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:06 am Post subject:

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