Thread: Books on Railways.

Last weekend, Mrs Aus and I decided to take a drive up the new Hunter Expressway to see what it was like, (very good actually) and we finished up in Singleton. just over half an hour from my place before the expressway, it would have taken an hour.

Anyrate I digress, we had a pub lunch and saw a bric-a -brac shop so Mrs Aus was keen to have a look, we went in and the old stuff they had in there was amazing. I stumbled on two 1984 vintage books on trains I had to have them and they were only a few dollars each so I bought them as I am an avid reader.





This book was interesting, it told of the major steam express trains that used to operate, and gave accounts of people who used to work in that era.

The other book is really a reference manual of the various steam trains and early diesel electric (up to 1984) trains that operated Australia wide. This book to me was a real find for somebody with an interest in steam loco's.



The price tickets are the original ones, not what I paid for them. So I guess they would have been around the $40 mark in today's money.

Can't go without showing a reference to my favourite steam loco, of which I have fond memories of them double heading and hauling coal up the Fassifern Bank and through Cardiff.

There's a high quality brass O scale (1:43.5) model of the AD60 coming out soon, I'll get some photos of the pilot model sections made so far during the week It is a proper monster of a model!