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      tasrail Moderator

    Location: Hobart
    I'll kick this off. Anyone want to guess where this photo was taken?



    Future quizzes can be photos or suitably cryptic questions.

    Regards,

    Stuart
    Posted: 01 Mar 2005 15:46

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      dthead Site Admin

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    I'll show you all how little I know of Tassie by guessing wildly - approaching Railton?


    Regards,
    David Head
    Posted: 01 Mar 2005 16:13
      Z1NorthernProgress2110 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Burnie, Tasmania
    I'm also going to have a rough stab at this. I say Coldwater Creek Junction on the North East line/Bell Bay line?
    Posted: 01 Mar 2005 18:07
      Big J Deputy Commissioner

    Location: In Paradise
    northwest line heading to Wiltshire?
    Posted: 01 Mar 2005 21:09
      tasrail2100 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
    this is a tough one, the rails are shiny on both bits of track so it would suggest they both get some regular use.  i am trying to think of places where you would have stopped etc. on your railcar tour.

    this is a pretty bad guess but i am going to say mowbray junction.
    Posted: 02 Mar 2005 12:31
      tasrail2100 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
    come on stuart i have seen you on here atleast tell us how wrong we all are and give us a clue so we can have another guess....
    Posted: 04 Mar 2005 09:26
      tasrail Moderator

    Location: Hobart
    A few interesting guesses so far, but nothing really close.

    TR2100 was on the right track (no that isn't a clue) when he assumed I took the photo last month, although this photo was actually taken while the train was still moving.  

    This photo was taken on the Tuesday when DP26 travelled empty from Hobart to Burnie, and I'm standing next to the driver looking out the front of the train.

    See how that lot goes for the next few days. Thats cuts it down to 350 odd kilometers to choose from . . . .

    Regards,

    Stuart
    Posted: 04 Mar 2005 14:03
      tasrail2100 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
    ok well as no one else is having a stab i am going to guess somewhere near anndover.  i think thats what the place is called, its at the top of a hill between tunnbridge and parratah...
    Posted: 06 Mar 2005 02:37
      Z1NorthernProgress2110 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Burnie, Tasmania
    How about a hint stuart? like is it down south or up north?
    I reckon it could be near Austin Ferry?
    Posted: 06 Mar 2005 10:10
      tasrail Moderator

    Location: Hobart
    How about a hint stuart? like is it down south or up north?
    "Z1NorthernProgress2110"


    It is somewhere on the Western Line

    Stuart
    Posted: 07 Mar 2005 10:06
      Vulcan Foundry Assistant Commissioner

    Hmm, haven't the faintest idea ?
    Posted: 08 Mar 2005 14:19
      tasrail2100 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
    well yeah i agree with vulcan foundry, although i guess it is not meant to be easy.

    just out of longford heading towards hagley???
    Posted: 10 Mar 2005 17:26
      tasrail Moderator

    Location: Hobart
    Ok, let start to wrap this up. The photo was taken within Western Junction yard limits, so thats somewhere between around Evandale to the crossing on the way to Perth.

    If anyone can name the siding or just describe where it actually is, they can have the next question (or just the smug satisfaction of being the winner)

    Regards,

    Stuart
    Posted: 11 Mar 2005 09:31
      Tool Junior Train Controller

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    The siding into the mill just west of Western Junction. That looks like river flat and the mountains on the left.
    Posted: 17 Mar 2005 06:01
      tasrail Moderator

    Location: Hobart
    The siding into the mill just west of Western Junction. That looks like river flat and the mountains on the left.
    "Tool"


    That will do. Its had various names over the years, but at the moment its TBM Siding or sometimes Tasmanian Board Mills.

    Regards,

    Stuart
    Posted: 17 Mar 2005 09:15
      Tool Junior Train Controller

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    I lived in Launceston for 9 years and chased a few trains in that area. I thought of it at the start of the quiz, but it didn't look right when you've never been on that piece of track - let alone out the front of the train. Good quiz picture. If a few mm was shaved off the left side of photo it could easily pass for somewhere down the EBR.  

    Someone else can put up the next question. I've got an archeological photo which will take some finding (no pun intended).
    Posted: 17 Mar 2005 13:39
      B 67 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Central Gippsland
    Well, this quiz has stalled somewhat. So here's something to get it moving again.

    [gallery=http://www.railpage.com.au/modules.php?full=1&set_albumName=album128&id=Rail0150&name=gallery&include=view_photo.php]

    Where did I take this photo?
    Posted: 08 Apr 2005 21:58
      tasrail2100 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
    i think all of us were too courteous to steal tools thunder, but thanks for setting the wheels in motion once again B67.

    well, i am sure one day one of these will just jump out of the screen at me and i will be able to say "yes! i know exactly where that is!"  that day is not yet upon us.

    however, my guess...

    its not right in fingal is it?  near fingal park???






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    Posted: 08 Apr 2005 22:31
      B 67 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Central Gippsland
    Very nice guess. It is at Fingal. I won't pretend to know exactly where. But I think it was a little east of the station towards the coal loader.  I'd just got off the second loco (Z1) after cab riding from Conara Jcn early one morning.   Very Happy
    Posted: 08 Apr 2005 23:17
      tasrail2100 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
    ha ha that one didn't last very long at all... never actually been to fingal, but the northern street directory came in handy...

    ok, so here is one i dont reckon anyone will find in a street directory (if u can scan it for a laugh)...



    http://www.railpage.com.au/modules/gallery/albums/album910/whereisit2.sized.jpg

    where is this taken?

    a road name would be nice in the answer, but just a vague location will be fine i guess if thats all we can manage 8)
    Posted: 08 Apr 2005 23:41
      benscaro Chief Commissioner

    Hmm, is it along the Tea Tree Road, past Tea Tree crossing, on the way to Campania ?  

    Ben
    Posted: 09 Apr 2005 01:28
      tasrail2100 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
    no, not between tea tree and campaignia
    Posted: 09 Apr 2005 19:41
      Tool Junior Train Controller

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    Sorry for the delay. My picture is with relatives who are away in Qld for a while.

    That last quiz pix looks like Sisters Hills (wild guess)
    Posted: 10 Apr 2005 14:59
      tasrail2100 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
    no not sisters hill.

    time for a clue...

    it was taken on an empty carriage movement between New Norfolk and Don, late november 2004.
    Posted: 10 Apr 2005 17:12
      tasrail Moderator

    Location: Hobart
    Coal Mine Bend, heading up the hill between Colebrook and Rhyndaston (or more accurately between Mud Walls Rd crossing and Rhyndaston Rd crossing).

    If it was Y2 heading the train, I'd say it was stopped due to overheating rather than a photo stop.

    Stuart
    Posted: 12 Apr 2005 14:11

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