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yep short-cuts were prolific on the railway back in the good ole days, I enjoyed ETS, not being a fan of train order system, though I did enjoy the manual Track Warrant system while belting around Tasmania.

The Victorian Railway and subsequent V/line used mostly Leslie air horns, I am not sure just what variety are on this A class.

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I have not been employed on the railway for very many years, so don't know how much current day train drivers are paid. However, I do remember hearing when the average payment reached $100,000.oo per year which was a few years ago now. So, probably today just over that amount.

Cooee Gregg, Yep, I stumble along now being an old fart pensioner. Nothing much happens here on our pathetic railway to get excited about. I only shot about 10 minutes worth of video during 2023. And, only unearthed this video clip at Hartley Vale while hunting for other material. You have Lofty ideas of relocation ? I am not sure just where you mean, not Mount Lofty in SA ? Avoiding the ravages of Mum Nature is the problem today. At least it has not become too serious here. Gotta feel sorry for the poor mongrels who are copping it repeated times. Steve.

Yes Mt Vic could be a chilly place, and it amuses me these days with all the razor wire surrounding the interurban stabling sidings. I vaguely recollected having shot some video at Hartley Vale, but only found the brief footage when hunting for some other material.

G'day, Yes there are numerous garratts that were more oomphish compared to the QR version, especially in Africa on 3 foot six. But, my dubbing the QR version as a baby dosen't diminish the charm. Most babies have charm.

Howdy David, The standard brake system being used is the EP (electro-pneumatic) with blended regenerative on motor cars. Regenerative brake system turns the traction motors into generators resulting in magnetic friction to slow wheel rotation. There are seven steps of application and release of the brakes, making it fairly easy to adjust braking force. Working any train in westinghouse air brake requires more attention, but still works well. You may need to use the air brake when EP fails. The main problem with the Tangara design is the Wheel Slide sensor. This will activate when any wheel slip and or slide occurs and this reduces or fully releases the brakes. This system was implemented to prevent skidded wheels due to being locked up. So, when any rain occurs you could cop the wheel slide and potential braking dramas. Some tangaras have run into things when the brakes were kicked off by the wheel slide sensor. It is a long time since I was last in the cab of any smog hollow suburban train. So, I don't know how the more modern sets perform.

G'day Kent and Co, Yes, the Glenelg tramway still rattles in Adelaide, but with more modern trams today. I was prompted to upload this brief clip having been asked if I had any footage featuring it from the early 1990s.

They run the trams so slow nowadays :(

@@Sam-cn4ch safety first

@@MartintheTinman 50/60 km/h limits on a dedicated right of way corridor is pretty crazy compared to 70/80 km/h on similar dedicated corridors in Canberra, the Gold Coast & Melbourne. Gold Coast & Canberra even allow 70 km/h in dedicated Street running lanes. Overly cautious, or an excuse to pad out the timetable to artificially get good on time performance numbers? 😂

G'day Martin, I am pleased that you enjoyed my brief glimpse of the Glenelg trams. I made a couple of treks to Adelaide during the 1990s. but didn't go to squiz the trams on the other occasions. I have seen other video featuring the trams and they do hurtle along, except when street running. I have witnessed the motorists tempting fate with the trams in Melbourne. They also had a restaurant tram in Melbourne, though I didn't ride it. I doubt that there were any stuffed quail on that menu, probably Melbourne pigeon. I also witnessed one tram's trolley pole derail and create havoc in St Kilda Road. The overhead repair mob quickly arrived and sorted it out to get them clanking along again fairly quickly. Pantographs are a more stable method, but then you require zig zagging overhead. I did ride some trams while trekking around Europe in 2008. Trams or Light Rail will hafta make a come back in large cities as we panic about global warming. I have only ridden the smog hollow SLR once back when it only ventured to the Fish Markets. Very expensive. But, it is starting to slink around regions of smog hollow where trad trams once trod before they kyboshed it all

@@aussiealco I had both Pantographs cut through hooking up on the overhead. Thankfully I was in Jetty Road and going really slowly because the Trams stopped instantly and had I been out on the closed track, Pantograph and overhead damage would have been a certainty. Funny thing is an Inspector turned up and screamed at the top of his lungs "lower those Pantographs"! I waited until he got closer and calmly replied "I can't, they're stuck" After a bit he finally understood

@@MartintheTinman Yes the smog hollow Elec Trouble mob were not impressed when ever you stuffed their precious overhead. NIL freights today with pantographs, so only squirts occasionally causing dramas with that stuff dangling in the atmosphere. I miss the days of working the electric locos which required more attention to detail than working diesels. During winter you could get the overhead steaming due to the amps being sucked out. Keeping an eye on the load meter and overhead line volts. Pull the power and you went nowhere, plus copped the ire of Elec Trouble.

I also took some video of the Glenelg trams rattling around but concentrated on the trains during my visit.

@@aussiealco is it published? I just looked and couldn't find it

@@MartintheTinman I have edited the brief clips of the Glenelg trams shot during my may 1992 visit and have uploaded it to my channel. It should be finished shortly.

G'day Josef, I visited the Whyalla region twice, october 1994 and november 2001. On both visits, I did not achieve very much video footage. Motoring around the dirt tracks in 1994, I discovered a pair of DE locos rattling towards Iron Baron and chased them. One of the MKA rebuilt things had apparently failed and I encountered those light engines returning from Iron Baron. After waiting for some time, finally the pair of DEs rattled past with the train which I chased back to Whyalla. That was the only train that I encountered on that brief visit. I did not include all of the video shot in the clip uploaded to youtube. The rear ore hopper did possess tiger stripes. I did not take any photos of the light engines or train as I was concentrating on video. In november 2001, I again didn't fair very well and only encountered a single train in wonky weather. I did snag a digital shot of that train which had DE8 plus a CK class unit. Steve.

For a period, a diesel assisting a soot belcher had to be hooked onto the front of the soot belcher to prevent soot and cinders from clogging the diesel radiator grill. However, when reaching Orange on dawn, they remarshalled the unit to have the 59er on the front.

West Coast mob went to history, and the earache thing went to SSR mob for use by El Zorro mob. Eventually EPA and Net Zero will kybosh the final EMD earache things.

G'day Brett, yes the dinky toys could grind down to 13 kph for hours. Working home from Dubbo with a quad on train 8136 was a magic sound in the cab clambering up the 1 in 40s. Alas, my cohorts didn't like the cramped cab, and we ended up banning them as lead unit on mileage jobs. I recollect working coalies from Wangco and A&B with quad 49 class, or a mixture with dinky toys. Had quad dinky toys on the Dubbo Oily 8331 a couple of times., and cab video of that appears in my youtube channel. Lots of jargon utilized on the railway.

G'day Kent, just managed to sign in to reply. Not much goes on here in the Central West now days. The only occasional thing of interest being an hysterical job appearing.

I joined the Government Railway of NSW, there were 8 trainees hired every couple of months, such was the turnover of blokes. Things are very different today.

I copped the paper train duty when the rostered Conara chappie had to attend his yearly medical exam.

@@aussiealco I was going to say one of the boys musta been off or something outta the ordinary.

25 notches existed for the master controller for powering, 19 resistance notches, notch 20 being full field, and five notches of weakfileds. Changing motor combination after the reverser is moved to the next position, the controller is returned to notch one while holding in the button on the end of the handle. The next motor combination will be engaged and notched out to full field and or weakies. When under motion, it was not necessary to notch out each of the resistance. But when commencing motion on a steep grade, each resistance notch would be selected to ensure that wheel slip does not occur, or excessive motor amps demanded.

I remember the L class had 36 notches, it was a wheel with a handle arising from a cylinderal column.

G'day Mike, yep I luved driving our buzz boxes even if some of them, the 46ers, were well past their use by date. Most of my video was shot to send to my USA amigos. Only much later did I get the idea of plonking the stuff in You Tube, plus the couple of DVDs that are available at Alcoworld at Ingleburn NSW. I was always careful when I whipped out the camera at work, being VERBOTEN. Thankfully, I got on ok with most drivers, plus The Big Bloke, loco inspector at LMC. The dinky toy 48 class were my fav loco even if my cohorts thought them too cramped.

I have not been in the cab of any modern locomotives. But, from what I have seen on the www, yes, computer screens replace most of the old style gauges found on my era locomotives. I did experience the cab of a BNSF EMD during my USA trek in 2000. Even back then, a computer screen had invaded the cab in the USA. I did not like the need to scroll screens to find various gauge displays.