I shouldn't have washed my car today

[p38arover]

Today, I finally got around to washing my car for the first time in months - then off to work I went.

At 1641, there was a lovely lightning strike which took out my panel at Springwood.

Everything looked normal on the track indicator diagram but I was soon convinced that not all was as it seemed. W582 and W555 called to say that the signals had gone back to stop in front of them and they were still red. My diagram showed all was green.

A quick check showed I had a panel mux failure and I had absolutely no control over signals or points. I couldn't cancel the routes and reset them, I couldn't move points, I couldn't clear signals. Everything was red.

Oh well, I didn't want dinner tonight, my wife has put me on a diet.

The rain was horrendous, the Gt Western Hwy near the station was flooded. The Valley Heights NOS and the Springwood DM were soaked after coming back from clipping points. The DM came back and his waterproof jacket pockets were 1/4 full of water. The station mobile was submerged in his pocket! To top it off, we lost the phones for outside calls - we couldn't make or receive any - and some of the Metronet train radio and some of the signal phones weren't working so I couldn't talk to trains https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Lots of blockworking after getting a number of points clipped. The phones and the Metronet just never stopped ringing, trains tripping out at every controlled signal from Warrimoo to Bullaburra.

5 hours later, the system was finally back to normal operation.

So for those of you on the Blue Mountains line, it was all my fault. I will not wash my car again before going to work. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

This may make sense only to Drivesafe.


Ron

[bigbugga]

Come live here for a bit, when it rains you soap up the car and let the rain rinse it off.

The rain keep the dust away long enough for it to look clean.

Oh and the train drivers here had fun when Cyclone Clare just went through as well.

[timo]

I may have seen this on the way home, the rain was heavy, I don't envy you but... Thanks for fixing it! https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[p38arover]

I feel sorry for the commuters. Many were stuck on a train between platforms for up to an hour 'cos it was peak hour(s) and the guards were unable to tell them when they might get moving.

The highway at Springwood was flooded quite deeply, I am told.

The downpour was extreme.

Ron

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Originally posted by p38arover
Today, I finally got around to washing my car for the first time in months - then off to work I went.

At 1641, there was a lovely lightning strike which took out my panel at Springwood.

Everything looked normal on the track indicator diagram but I was soon convinced that not all was as it seemed. W582 and W555 called to say that the signals had gone back to stop in front of them and they were still red. My diagram showed all was green.

A quick check showed I had a panel mux failure and I had absolutely no control over signals or points. I couldn't cancel the routes and reset them, I couldn't move points, I couldn't clear signals. Everything was red.

Oh well, I didn't want dinner tonight, my wife has put me on a diet.

The rain was horrendous, the Gt Western Hwy near the station was flooded. The Valley Heights NOS and the Springwood DM were soaked after coming back from clipping points. The DM came back and his waterproof jacket pockets were 1/4 full of water. The station mobile was submerged in his pocket! To top it off, we lost the phones for outside calls - we couldn't make or receive any - and some of the Metronet train radio and some of the signal phones weren't working so I couldn't talk to trains https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Lots of blockworking after getting a number of points clipped. The phones and the Metronet just never stopped ringing, trains tripping out at every controlled signal from Warrimoo to Bullaburra.

5 hours later, the system was finally back to normal operation.

So for those of you on the Blue Mountains line, it was all my fault. I will not wash my car again before going to work. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

This may make sense only to Drivesafe.[b]


Ron



well,, come on Drivesafe,, translate!

[DEFENDERZOOK]

<span style="color:blue">ahh...cmon pedro.....its plain english.....


state rail uses lucas electrics.......</span>

[one_iota]

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">ahh...cmon pedro.....its plain english.....


state rail uses lucas electrics.......</span>

Hence the smoke. Bring back steam trains I say. Love the smell of burning coal.

[DEFENDERZOOK]

<span style="color:blue">have you ever been in town when they accidently send a steamer through the tunnel system...?


do you know how funny it looks to see all the commuters running from their platforms
coughing and spluttering as they emerge from all the soot and smoke....</span>

[p38arover]

Originally posted by one_iota
Bring back steam trains I say. Love the smell of burning coal.

Ahh, when mixed with steam, so do I.

Ron

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I know its not steam,,, but

was searching for news on 3801 and found this,,
another NSW train icon
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

just had new livery applied https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[p38arover]

Originally posted by Pedro_The_Swift
I know its not steam,,, but

was searching fore news on 3801 and found this,,
another NSW train icon
http://www.3801limited.com.au/news/images/4401%20repaint%20finish%206%20rd%201%20end1.JPG

just had new livery applied https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Nice. Nearly 50 years old.

Dad was an engineer on the project at AE Goodwin at St Marys (NSW) where these were built.

I might print that out and send it to him.

Ron

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Hey Ron,,

would be interested in the diesel stats,,

actual physical sizes and stuff,,

if possible :wink:

[harry]

8) ah ba humbug, trains, the enemy of road transport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



long live the commer knocker!!!!!!!

[p38arover]

Originally posted by harry
long live the commer knocker!!!!!!!

See http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/Te...chnical/TS3.htm (http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/Technical/TS3.htm)

Or this page for moving gif file of the engine http://www.sa.hillman.org.au/TS3.htm

Ron

[harry]

8) far out, how do you do that so fast?

ah

quick was going to take too long to spell

[harry]

8) thanks ron,
i have had a quick look and slugged it into favourites.
my dad ran a fleet of trucks and had a 'knocker.
there is a chap that comes to the mudgeerbah [might have spelt that wrong] show with that engine - its awsome to hear it and a wonderful piece of machinery, even if it sent every owner of one broke.
british engineering at its finest!

i want one.

[p38arover]

I used to be editor of the Hillman Owners Club of Aust magazine (before I was editor of the LROC mag) so I knew about the TS3.

Ron

[rick130]

I had a Lima HO scale train set as a kid (@ 1970) that had a 44 Class loco pulling the Indian Pacific, and I could look out the front window of our house as the real thing went past !

Oh dear, I suddenly feel very old....... :wink:

[DiscoSonic]

I washed my mini cooper 3 months after i brought it and all the paint came off in large sheets like you take off wall paper . 8O
The guy i brought it from didnt sand the primer before spraying so the final coats washed away .
The funny thing was at my work they wash cars once a year as a charity thing with the local firebrigade, if i had left it untill then and got them to wash it can you imagine there faces :wink:

[Ace]

I bet it passed the time quickly though ron.

I planned to go to my aunties at Winmallee today to do some cleaning up for her, i went but worked outside in drizzle all morning. We (dad and i, the women were shopping :roll: ) then took a load of rubbish to the Blaxland tip only to be told we werent locals so we werent allowed to drop the rubbish (all green waste so doesnt really pose a problem to land fill), and that if we wanted to drop it we either needed a copy of a rates notice for my aunties address or for her to come with here drivers licence. Total load of crap, so we turned around went back to her place and dumped it on the nature strip so her son could dump it later. Matt