Scouse
11th July 2016, 09:25 AM
I took train mad #2 son down to the Goulburn Roundhouse for a visit last week. He's quite the regular at Thirlmere so I thought Goulburn would be a good trip for him.
There's an awful lot of early diesels sitting around, most privately owned & kept at the museum for storage purposes (as are around 75% of the exhibits), which is a change from the steam orientated Trainworks.
They're having a big display of the diesels in October, concentrating on the rounded type, hence the Streamliner name. There must be around 20 or so sitting out of the main display area so I assume they'll be moved around to somewhere more suited for a display.
What surprised me is that there's even more of these old diesels sitting in the operational CF Railway workshop yard next door, either in use or awaiting repair/scrap.
Here's the info on the display coming up in October:
Streamliners 2016 ? Celebrating 65 years of Streamlined locomotives in Australia (http://www.streamliners2016.com/)
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=111156&d=1468196199
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=111157&d=1468196199
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=111158&d=1468196199
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=111159&d=1468196199
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There's an awful lot of early diesels sitting around, most privately owned & kept at the museum for storage purposes (as are around 75% of the exhibits), which is a change from the steam orientated Trainworks.
They're having a big display of the diesels in October, concentrating on the rounded type, hence the Streamliner name. There must be around 20 or so sitting out of the main display area so I assume they'll be moved around to somewhere more suited for a display.
What surprised me is that there's even more of these old diesels sitting in the operational CF Railway workshop yard next door, either in use or awaiting repair/scrap.
Here's the info on the display coming up in October:
Streamliners 2016 ? Celebrating 65 years of Streamlined locomotives in Australia (http://www.streamliners2016.com/)
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=111156&d=1468196199
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=111157&d=1468196199
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=111158&d=1468196199
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=111159&d=1468196199
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