What Will Sir Be Gunzelling?

MJJA · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:51 am Post subject:

Bloody hell, how long did it take to build that?
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Bigged · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:39 am Post subject:

Now that is a Bridge! Shit-eating grin

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Skraw · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:06 pm Post subject:

It's the bridge over the Namoi River near Manilla on the sadly closed Barraba line.

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Gromit · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject:

Yes it's a Hudson! They really screwed it up didn't they, everything was so crooked they needed to add another axle.

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

Why? You'd be pretty much right.

A2's (which didn't have a trailing axle) were notorious for frame cracking in the 1940's due to a lack of trailing axle.
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Broadway · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 1

Gunzelling for me? Night! There is just something great about seeing a train at night that in my eyes makes the experience more memorable.
Doesn't matter to me whether it is steam, diesel or electric, although my preference is definitely a fast freight rolling through a rural area at night,eg: Occasionally used to stay at a caravean park in Chiltern and would wander over to the station about 10.00pm or so and watch the Sydney- bound XPT go through (yep, even it looks better at night) but the highlight was always a freight flying through behind 2 or 3 NR's. Loved that image as the containers unwound out of the dark, were briefly splahed by station lights and then disappeared into the dark again.

One other night time image, which I think might have started it all: 1981 / 82, seeing the down Southern Aurora flying through Dysart (just south of Seymour) behind an 'X' class. I'll never forget the sound of that hard working X and the sight of the steel carriages caught in the beams of the car headlights. Spectacular.

rowie · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 95

I'll point my camera at anything, except horizontal elevators. I find them about as exciting as watching paint dry.

Also got a unhealthy obsession with loud four strokes of the GE kind Shit-eating grin

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dasher · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject:

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Skraw · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:44 am Post subject:

AusInExile · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject:

Now THIS is a bridge

As far as what is liked gunzelling, not really big on preserved steam. Like rowie, I'll pretty much gunzel anything except 'lectrics (which shouldn't be am apparatusable offence, but I'm not going to be my life on it). Also getting sick of seeing AC4400's and Dash-9's... seems to be all that runs past my place lately.

Heck, I'd almost be willing to photograph NR's and 81's instead Rodney Dangerfield

dasher · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: