Thanks. very interesting. I posted a video of a paddle steamer. Built in 1911. This old man works in the north of Russia. Happy viewing. ruclips.net/video/i26MB-Anurk/видео.html
Wonderful. There a lot of crossovers between the railway and paddleboat hobbies. PS Canberra is one of two compound paddlesteamers on the river (the other is PS Melbourne, at Mildura). PS Adelaide is one of two paddlesteamers on the river with a loco-style boiler, and direct drive (so slow revving). The other is PS Industry, at Renmark. Back in the days, as VR was converting locos from saturated to superheated, a lot of former railway boilers ended up in paddlesteamers (and sawmills). Emmylou's whistle sounds railway, but isn't. It was purpose built, but was designed match a one of the standard railway chimes. I'm not sure if Adelaide's whistle is ex SAR or not. Chicken & egg: those USA whistles, adopted by SAR, were described as 'riverboat' whistles. That was good water, and a stronger-than-usual current. Notice how the captains exploit the current for turning, just like a teenager in a hotted FJ outside the Parthenon milkbar. Alexander Arbuthnot was the last of the conventional paddlesteamers built for the Murray, ~1923. It was built for Arbuthnot sawmill, Koondrook, a terminus visited by many of our steam tours. Reciprocating an earlier gesture, when downstream paddlesteamers came to Echuca to mark the 150th anniversary of the inaugural navigation, Echuca sent PS Adelaide to Wentworth and Mildura in 2010 to join a fleet marking the centenary of PS Melbourne.
Great video!
I remember this. I was on holiday in Echuca with my dad at the time and we went to the station to take pictures of the train.
Thanks. very interesting. I posted a video of a paddle steamer. Built in 1911. This old man works in the north of Russia. Happy viewing. ruclips.net/video/i26MB-Anurk/видео.html
love the water steamis . this is what travel on the rivers used to look like long ago.:)
Fantastic vid
Wonderful. There a lot of crossovers between the railway and paddleboat hobbies. PS Canberra is one of two compound paddlesteamers on the river (the other is PS Melbourne, at Mildura). PS Adelaide is one of two paddlesteamers on the river with a loco-style boiler, and direct drive (so slow revving). The other is PS Industry, at Renmark. Back in the days, as VR was converting locos from saturated to superheated, a lot of former railway boilers ended up in paddlesteamers (and sawmills). Emmylou's whistle sounds railway, but isn't. It was purpose built, but was designed match a one of the standard railway chimes. I'm not sure if Adelaide's whistle is ex SAR or not. Chicken & egg: those USA whistles, adopted by SAR, were described as 'riverboat' whistles. That was good water, and a stronger-than-usual current. Notice how the captains exploit the current for turning, just like a teenager in a hotted FJ outside the Parthenon milkbar. Alexander Arbuthnot was the last of the conventional paddlesteamers built for the Murray, ~1923. It was built for Arbuthnot sawmill, Koondrook, a terminus visited by many of our steam tours. Reciprocating an earlier gesture, when downstream paddlesteamers came to Echuca to mark the 150th anniversary of the inaugural navigation, Echuca sent PS Adelaide to Wentworth and Mildura in 2010 to join a fleet marking the centenary of PS Melbourne.
Paddlewheelers from cinema "All the rivers run"