Petersham College training cars moving soon.

42101 · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 4:44 pm

Red7489 Thanks for taking these great pics mate. Very Happy

TLD™ thanks heaps for putting them up on here. Very Happy

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TheLoadedDog · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 4:54 pm

And here's the last lot:

Humphrey! We're leaving!

alltrainzfan · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 5:42 pm

Thank you TLD™ for those nice shots. I was wondering what was going on when I hopped off the bus, but then I saw what suspiciously I thought was 8020 (then I saw right when I saw the corrugation) being moved across into the Petersham Training College. Unfortunately, I did not have a proper camera, so these are my camera phone shots of this afternoon (late - 4.30pm ish). Other people will have waaay better and more interesting shots than I do and will presumably post them tonight. Also great to meet biqua who was also taking pics.

Overhead shot of the action. 4819 lingers in the background.

DMT 9204 waits for 8020 to get across first.

DIM 8020 getting moved across.

New driving car? Shocked

48130 taking the Tullochs out.

Overall, a very interesting experience. Now this is something you won't see at Petersham often! Very Happy

hurstville1 · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 5:52 pm

I knew I should've spent my Saturday doing something else Mad

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42101 · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 5:53 pm

Cool so it looks like i got it right about it being the interurban cars going in there......Glad the blokes from Railcorp that gave me the heads up on this passed on the info to me to share. Very Happy

Alltrainzfan nice pics for a camera phone mate and THANKS for showing the MFD unit blokes lifting them across too. Well Done

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1979 · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:01 pm

Great Photos Guys! Good to see we get V Set cars to play around with unlike them hot and cr@p Tulloch Cars.

But, anyone thought that this would be one of the first times that a V Set has ever been along the local lines at Petersham?

1979

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42101 · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:05 pm

Kaine sorry to burst your buble mate but they have been up and down the local lines heaps of times when trackwork closes the other 4 lines Laughing

but i would say its the 1st time interurban cars have been into those sidings.

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biqua · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:13 pm

Well, clearly Red7489 got there before me, but I have many similar shots for most of it ... same with ATF - will see what I can get online tonight. In the meantime I will give you this - pretty tough on these two doing all the shifting. Laughing

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alltrainzfan · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:13 pm

Thanks 42101 - my camera phone is alright. It's a Sony Ericsson 2MP. Biqua has a photo with two workmen pushing the bogie while DIM 8020 is being shifted, so it looks as if the two workmen are able to push the carriage by themselves! Laughing

1979 · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:15 pm

42101 · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:19 pm

ATF / Biqua you will find that those two blokes are just aligning the bogie with the rails as the pushing of the car is done by a small pusher jack anchored to those holes in the lifting beam and pushing on the trolley underneath that a heavy jack is sitting on and lifting the carrige.

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biqua · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:57 pm

FieldShunt74 · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:24 pm

Ooooo! The Glenbrook car of death at the college! Look kids, this is why you travel at restricted speed after passing a permissive signal at stop.

As useful a learning aid as it might be, I'm still a bit miffed that this pandering to the superstitious means one less serviceable car in an all too small fleet.

Mad

TheLoadedDog · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:42 pm

TE2815 · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:44 pm

Looks like they didn't trust the trackage to take the weight of the 48's or is their another reason why it appears the tullochs were loose shunted (by tractor) and why the V cars were lifted and pushed across rather than shunted in.

They way it looks to have been done must have taken a lot longer than if they had just shunted them with the locos.

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