Thread: Here are some fabulous steam photos.

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Wow! Love the fact that most of those photo's were taken in my local area.

Excellent photos. Well done, that man.
Don.

I was wondering if you knew him Jim. Right time, right place, photography and trains as hobbies.

Thanks for the link Drivesafe.

Great pics
so where was 3801 during all this?
you do forget just how filthy they were,,

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I was wondering if you knew him Jim. Right time, right place, photography and trains as hobbies.

Thanks for the link Drivesafe.

Unfortunately no Ian, I didn't know him, but a lot of those photo's such as the one taken at Toronto of tank engine 3076,which is not far from my place do bring back memories.

ps. Love the large photo near the bottom of 3813, 6041,5920 and 60xx passing each with smoke going everywhere, good shot, that!!!

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

you do forget just how filthy they were,,

Hi Pedro, and I worked the last 3 years of steam on NSWGR and I hated steam locos for that very reason, they were filthy.

Irony is that the locos I liked working the most, were actually dirtier than steam locos and these were the 46 class electrics.

When you changed over with a crew on a steam engine, the first thing you and the driver did was get a bucket of hot water, some cheese cloth and soap and you washed down everything in and around the footplate and cab.

With a 46 Class, because they were so incredibly effective at what they did, they very rarely needed to go into a depot, so they never got their cabs cleaned.

As a result, you found you got dirtier working on them.

What a twist!

Yeah, I remember as a kid in the 1950's, standing on the bridge at Whitebridge watching the coal trains or the "Belmont Express" pass underneath. Looking down on the engines, the thing I do remember is how dirty they were.