Thread: Train Rides

I have always found the Garrets fasinating. And find turntables fasinating also. Do not know if it is still therebut there was one at Goulbourn NSW that I saw, and have seen others as well, but forget where.

I went by train to Landsbourough, Queensland once to pick up videos and books on the New World Order, and noted they had a triangle shape track to turn steam engines rather than using a turntable. I thought that was smart where space permits.

Usually excellent, this was apparently not such a good ride today...

An iconic far north Queensland tourist train has derailed with 249 people on board.
Authorities said the Kuranda Scenic Railway train derailed at Kuranda, near Cairns, around 10.30m (AEST) on Friday.
Five people were injured, including a two-year-old boy who suffered head injuries.
A woman, 62, has a knee and shoulder injury and a man, 25, received a cut to the head.
Two others received minor head injuries.
Ambulance and fire crews were at the scene on Friday afternoon.
Further information was being sought from Queensland Rail.
The railway opened in 1891 and is considered an engineering marvel, traversing 37 bridges and 37 tunnels through World Heritage-listed rainforest.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Usually excellent, this was apparently not such a good ride today...

Apparently due to a landslide.

John

G'Day again,

Attached is out of today's Courier Mail about the landslip that affected the Cairns/Kuranda tourist train yesterday.
John

Originally Posted by JohnF

I have always found the Garrets fasinating. And find turntables fasinating also. Do not know if it is still therebut there was one at Goulbourn NSW that I saw, and have seen others as well, but forget where.

I went by train to Landsbourough, Queensland once to pick up videos and books on the New World Order, and noted they had a triangle shape track to turn steam engines rather than using a turntable. I thought that was smart where space permits.

I think there is still a turntable and roundhouse at Rockhampton that is to be/being preserved.

The 46class was my fave old electric loco. Quicker than an "E type Jag" in a quarter mile.......... there's a silly fact for ya!!!

Originally Posted by twitchy

The 46class was my fave old electric loco

Mine too.

They were great to work on except for one strange problem.

They were the dirtiest locos I ever worked on and this includes being dirtier than steam locos.

You always ended up covered in black after a shift on them and they were one on the coldest engines to work on in winter, on runs over the Blue Mountains.


Here’s a 46 class triple header about to leave Lithgow on a bloody cold winter’s morning and that’s frost on the ground.

Circa 1974

Originally Posted by JohnF

went by train to Landsbourough, Queensland once to pick up videos and books on the New World Order, and noted they had a triangle shape track to turn steam engines rather than using a turntable. I thought that was smart where space permits.

Here’s three pictures of part of the triangle at Wallangarra.

This is a little different in that triangle for standard gauge a rare and this is probable a one-up in that it is a dual gauge triangle.