All the threads are open for nominations ... note that there are some new threads this year... we'll see how they go.
Your final nominations are called for. Your peers - acknowledge their creativity, humour, the most useful, the most knowledgeable, the most innovative, and the most resourceful, the most inventive, the most courageous (yes, derring-do, valour and courage all happen here on a regular basis, just ask any Gunzel who climbs a tree to take a photo).
All bogies are up for FINAL nominations for the next 2 weeks.
Read the first post in any thread, to see what its all about.
⇈Read the guidelines. ⇈ That image above is a link.
Don't be sorry, click and read!
- Spell their name right
- Link to the post you are nominating
- Nominations don't need to be seconded.
Me too!!! posts attract a warning.
If you really think a nomination is good, then vote for that nomination.
- Don't nominate someone for a category in which they have already been nominated this year. You can add to or discuss the reasons for a previous nomination if you wish.
Nominations are open until 20 September
Voting starts on 21 September for one week.
Results are expected to be known around 27 September.
Bogies will be announced that following week.
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alstom_888mChief CommissionerJoined: Aug 26, 2007 Last Visited: Dec 3, 2008 Location: Craigieburn Suburban Railway Line, Melbourne
I've nominated, but I thought 574M was suppost to be running the Hotboxes too?
The Hotboxes were a project to ensure that posts during the earlier part of the last 12 months were included in this year's Bogies. Out of sight = out of mind. The best post in each category received a Bogies Nomination. I've done my bit.
Now its your turn to nominate!
574MWhite GuruJoined: Mar 15, 2006 Last Visited: Nov 30, 2008 Location: Shepparton
This is an interesting picture—perhaps for Cityrail Service Interruptions with all those vests in and around that cab.
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I am sure, from time to time, that we have all felt like these bored and disgruntled, schoolboys. Dangerous!
Doubtless that fires the imagination, no end. I can think of a few of our members at Central and other places. Yo.
What we need, folks, are the great adventures of the imagination, the written word, the pixel perfect picture... We need nominations for Best Railway Related Post ...
You can make a nomination right here for Best Railway Related Post
Fred3801Chief CommissionerJoined: Aug 25, 2005 Last Visited: Nov 30, 2008 Location: Inner West, Sydney
Thanks for bringing my attention to the 'Me Too' rule 574M. But I've got a question to that. How are you suppost to pick a winner if (say for example) three separate people nominate for three seperate possibles?
How are you suppost to pick who wins if they all have the same amount of nominations?
Thanks for bringing my attention to the 'Me Too' rule 574M. But I've got a question to that. How are you suppost to pick a winner if (say for example) three separate people nominate for three seperate possibles?
How are you suppost to pick who wins if they all have the same amount of nominations?
You add a poll to the thread, or you start a new voting thread. All this gets voted on by the members, and soon.
574MWhite GuruJoined: Mar 15, 2006 Last Visited: Nov 30, 2008 Location: Shepparton
Safety is slowly moving from the electro-mechanical era to the electronic.
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Safety audits all over the place now.
Then again, things do go pear-shaped from time to time.
Do you know all states have disaster management controllers? Totally separate from train controllers? It's really interesting. Railway Displan Controllers.
What we need, folks, are the great posts, the sharing of information and technology, the instruction into the greater mysteries of safeworking and as skitz siad the other day,
Safeworking is essentially three items:
- simplicity
- communication
- discipline
So we need your nominations for Best Railway Related Post.
You can make a nomination right here for Best Railway Related Post
574MWhite GuruJoined: Mar 15, 2006 Last Visited: Nov 30, 2008 Location: Shepparton
Of course, Railpage Australia™ gives you a really broad spectrum of "persons with interests" shall we say. We have quite a few here who are fans of any sort of passenger transport, to wit:
with thanks to fast01
Fieldshunt74 says ...
FieldShunt74 wrote:
Your decent discussion is someone else's eye crossingly boring raving. And vice versa.
Railpage Australia™ was and is supposed to be a broad church. There should be room for dribbly foamers and megalomaniac productivity boffins. Neither should be looking down their noses at the other.
Oldfart, the great aviation wiz, takes the gauntlet up and produces the Railpage Australia™ POST SOPHISICTICATION INDEX
Oldfart wrote:
What an interesting discussion. I am in something of two minds on the issue. (Some would say two faced!)
On the one hand my overall perception is that the RP post sophistication index (PSI) has been in decline, and my signature has reflected that view for some time. There are undoubtedly some people's posts that I know will be of greater interest to me than most (including almost everything that you and Riccardo, and a few obvious others, have submitted). Having said that, I agree totally that there is a place for everyone and every level of discussion.
Personally I have no interest in minor details about rolling stock or waiting hours to take a shot of some passing train. But I can dimly remember a time when I would spend hours on the roof of a backyard shed spotting aircraft and I am aghast at the sheer technical quality of some of the photos produced here at times.
It's all really a matter of balance. There's nothing wrong with what I perceive as 'light and fluffy' threads provided they do not overwhelm discussion so much that it effectively excludes purveyors of intelligent and robust debate. It would be sad if topics with great potential for thoughtful discussion attracted only gunzelesque input.
Does that sound elitist? Well maybe. And, if so, so be it. As for Riccardo, I've always thought his almost complete intolerance for dribble to be part of his essential charm. I certainly hope he doesn't stop. And I certainly hope people such as yourself don't cease to challenge him. Overall I regret I think the greater risk to the site is that it might gradually evolve (some would say regress) to be exclusively 'light and fluffy'.
On a lighter note, you have given me a moment of inspiration here. I've been struggling for most of the week to formulate new Position Descriptions and job titles that better reflect competency and work focus, rather than being more exclusively and narrowly task based. A 'Megalomaniacal Productivity Boffin' (grade 12/13) really hits the spot. I know I'll be applying for it.
You can make a nomination right here for Fogey Bogie
574MWhite GuruJoined: Mar 15, 2006 Last Visited: Nov 30, 2008 Location: Shepparton
Of course, Melbourne is Unique. All over the world, our W classes were recognised. So many people come from overseas to gunzel and ride our trams. Malcolm is still selling in the movie shops ...
(with thanks to Clive Mottram)
We even exported a few of them, thanks to the wonderful Dudley Snell.
To Seattle:
To Memphis
Life is change, life is all a flux, a continuous flux of manifestation. We have discarded W2's and so forth, and moved on. ...
(with thanks to Hitachi Man)
We are unique in that we have always had both a rail and a tramway system.
(with thanks to dxcack)
Then, of course, we converted some of the systemic inefficiencies to *efficiency*
(with thanks to dxcack, again)
And of course, they meet, from time to time. Well, in a sort of a way
(with thanks to norgelberg)
AAnd we have always used them for advertising, mind you ...
(with thanks to Comengs)
Then again, sometimes, trams don't even need poles or anything else up to move along
Did I say pole? Hmmm. Sign of the times. When I grew up, trams had trolley wheels on the end of the pole, and the conductors used to go into the back cabin and grab the rope and steer the pole under the OH bridges and through frogs. None of this
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(with thanks to Lakeyboy, who got it from Vicsig, so thanks, CMG. )
Then again, it hasn't been a good year on the trams. Lots of rear-enders.
Adelaide is the place of Flexity's and development. The City Extension opened this year and there was welcome and fulsome coverage on Railpage Australia™.
(with thanks to 409)
There is a very lively watch over there in SA about the new tram tracks to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Semaphore and West Lakes. Adelaide is the next big growth metropolis for trams in Australia, I reckon, with Brisbane and Perth yet to get in on the act. Act? ACT had those stupid tourist "trolley " buses for a while, but have decided to stick with buses. That's what you get in a city where your house and land can cost you $750,000. The futility of it all.
So we need your nominations for Contributions to Trams and Light Rail
You can make a nomination right here for Best Contribution to Trams and Light Rail
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