With all the fuss over the colours of locos; I assume many people's heads would explode over the mechanical lubricator and the butterfly doors on 986? Did the engine ever run as a coal burner with box ...

Anyone else noticed jrb1 only posts in this thread and it's always how good a job SRHC have done on those rare times in recent years it runs a trip?

Seems pretty suss to me.

I haven't heard anything, but if it is running to timetable it'll be somewhere around Kilmore East about now.

Clarke Hudswell, will you give it a rest? You carry on like all mainline tours in Victoria have a diesel involved, when in reality its only the tours that require them. Many tours operate with pure st ...

A great weekend put on by Steamrail and the VGR.

[url defaultattr=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v="GIteB8Ek0hE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIteB8Ek0hE

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Open Floor

Yendon?

Traincatcher, that isn't a single engine...

[quote=don_dunstan]Look at Regional Rail Link - on budget and ahead of schedule. Enormous benefits to both V/Line and Metro users AND the added bonus of two new green-fields stations in the growth cor ...

14 individual posts, are you serious? Why the hell can't you post one or two and link the rest to your chosen host like the rest of the members?

Was it really necessary to make eight separate posts rather than put the links in one?

The run back to Melbourne...

http://youtu.be/jGw80A1YEEM

Quick vid of the run to Bendigo last night...

http://youtu.be/vPQhjskUsdU

[quote=Bogong]Railway, railroad, I don't really care, they're both clearly descriptive terms.

What I DO care about is yet another repaint in blue and yellow. There must be at least a squillion engi ...

[quote=NSWGR 3827]The information about those Cars may have been in 'Catchpoint', but not much was in Steamrail's members newsletter and quite a bit after the aforementioned article.

But What about ...

Plenty of info about these cars on Facebook.

[quote=freightgate]Why beat around the bush bevans ?

There were various characters who disgraced themselves on this site. Good riddance.

They do not deserve to be here. I also believe some have ...

[quote=freightgate]Your opinion sure. So which Facebook group s yours and how many members does it have?[/quote]

None. I'm just a normal member of a couple.

[quote]Reading back through your posts ...

To add a less biased view...

Anyone noticed how far behind RP can be in the news? Stuff "breaking" here has hit the many and varied groups and been discussed days, weeks and sometimes months earlie ...

The E is just a rust filled shell of an engine, a bright blue shell at that. It has damage to the frame and drivers from years of the axles sliding around in the boxes. For the uses as proposed it'd n ...

Wandong?

Was that really worth a whole frickin thread? Are you on drugs or what?

[quote=Rodo]Yes, the train appeared to ride steadily, despite the "tampered" ballast. Speed appeared to be about 40 kmh. The T loco was detached after Echuca, perhaps it was to perform shunting duties ...

If I ever need to go to Mildura; I'll fly...

Those figures you boast are actually horrible and good reason to not reintroduce a costly and most certainly little used and lengthy train.

Is your vehicle 120+ years old and stored/used in a facility not equipped to do much more than running repairs?