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Thread: Allambi |
cpdbear
Replies: 12
Views: 500
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Forum: South Australia Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 4:33 pm Subject: Re: Allambi |
| I can confirm CD5 as the source and you might have never noticed them because they where stored at the southern end of jacketts behind a big pile of sleepers. You really had to know they where there t ... |
Thread: Receiver and Administrator Appointed to Freightlink |
cpdbear
Replies: 29
Views: 1268
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Forum: Operators Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:13 pm Subject: Receiver and Administrator Appointed to Freightlink |
| MD, you might want to check your facts. The above rail has been making a profit for some time now, it was the below train assests that killed freightlink. They tied to put the profits from the above r ... |
Thread: Advice on new camera. |
cpdbear
Replies: 25
Views: 568
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Forum: Railway Photography Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:48 pm Subject: Advice on new camera. |
| I did some research today, with alot of the the Canon P&S, they have a bad reputation for sensor failures. It is ment to be an isolated thing, but over 100,000 repairs done just in Australia, I do ... |
Thread: Who owns SZ287 & SJ cars |
cpdbear
Replies: 20
Views: 957
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Forum: Locomotives and Rolling Stock Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 5:23 pm Subject: Re: Who owns SZ287 & SJ cars |
There have been persistent rumors that one roomette & one twinette wil eventually find there wasy into the NRM., returned to former overland guise.
It not a rumor, it's official - announced at ... |
Thread: NRM'S New Book Wal Jack in South Australia |
cpdbear
Replies: 39
Views: 1907
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Forum: South Australia Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:41 pm Subject: NRM'S New Book Wal Jack in South Australia |
Lets hope that volume 2 is as good as this! Well recommended! Having seen all the photos in the Wal Jack collection @ the NRM, I've got to say the later volumes will surprise a lot of people when t ... |
Thread: Sandfly |
cpdbear
Replies: 2
Views: 257
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Forum: NT Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:09 pm Subject: Re: Sandfly |
| The latest newsletter from the Friends of the North Australia Railway has a write up about the restoration. They are trying to convince people to let them house it. I hope they are successful as it of ... |
Thread: NRM'S New Book Wal Jack in South Australia |
cpdbear
Replies: 39
Views: 1907
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Forum: South Australia Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:04 pm Subject: Re: NRM'S New Book Wal Jack in South Australia |
| It's volume 1 - Adelaide region. So it only contains photos from Adelaide and close in lines. |
Thread: The Southern Spirit |
cpdbear
Replies: 40
Views: 5081
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Forum: Operators Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:47 pm Subject: Re: The Southern Spirit |
Their was a mock-up of one of the cabins in this month Railway Digest... looked quite interesting...
The mock up is actually on display at "Adelaide Parklands Terminal" - Keswick to those of you wh ... |
Thread: Stored Cars in Newport? |
cpdbear
Replies: 97
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Forum: Victoria Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:19 pm Subject: Re: Stored Cars in Newport? |
SJ281-SJ284 sans bogies?
Huh - do you mean they are on temporary bogies or physically on the ground? |
Thread: SAR coach 148 |
cpdbear
Replies: 7
Views: 452
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Forum: South Australia Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:03 pm Subject: Re: SAR coach 148 |
Sorry, I don;t have any more information about the photo. The print was given to me years ago without any information.
One of these days I must start collating all the additional information I have ... |
Thread: SAR coach 148 |
cpdbear
Replies: 7
Views: 452
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Forum: South Australia Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:13 am Subject: Re: SAR coach 148 |
| Not sure why it was signed in 1948, but this is car "Wakefield" which was condemned well before then. See http://comrails.railpage.org.au/sar_carriages/n_wakefield.html |
Thread: Help please - CR axlebox plate |
cpdbear
Replies: 2
Views: 198
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Forum: South Australia Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:45 pm Subject: Re: Help please - CR axlebox plate |
| Looks like what you would find on early brass journal CR 4 wheel or bogie stock like BS ballast, R flats, C cattle, S sheep or similar. The axle boxes where fairly interchangeable between vehicles de ... |
Thread: Platinum class car on The Overland. |
cpdbear
Replies: 13
Views: 967
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Forum: Victoria Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:07 pm Subject: Re: Platinum class car on The Overland. |
| The car was built in 1966 - it's over 40 years old it's time to think about putting it in a museum or giving it to a heritage operation not revamp it for modern service. I agree with the poster that d ... |
Thread: So called "copyright" infringements? |
cpdbear
Replies: 10
Views: 898
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Forum: MSTS General Discussions Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:12 am Subject: Re: So called "copyright" infringements? |
| Alltrains could you show us the link to the case you quote or a case location/time/place etc. I would like to see what I can find about what a magistrate or judge may have actual said rather than what ... |
Thread: Photo request: Long Gully and Callington |
cpdbear
Replies: 23
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Forum: South Australia Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:09 pm Subject: Photo request: Long Gully and Callington |
| I should point out though that originally the main station building was on that platform but it is not the building that is at the NRM, this was a replacement building for that platform! I do not know ... |
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