Dash...it's an electric turntable! Was hoping to see the lads put their backs into it as per a manual turntable. That locomotives just fits too. Well done to the volunteers. Great work, thanks Brenden.
This brings back memories of lots of Saturday afternoons in the early 1960s, when my cousin and I used to visit the Ballarat East Workshop to check out all the locos. There was no worry about security then, and we were allowed to wander around anything that wasn't being prepared for work or taken our of service. The workshop then had two turntables under cover, which were surrounded by A2, R, K, N and D3 Class locos, while out in the yard, B Class diesels were kept idling because back then oil was so cheap, and it saved the trouble of starting them up.
Hi Brenden. How is the turntable powered ?. I imagine a diesel turbine engine these days. Although I am sure I have seen somewhere that horses were used ( not necessarily in Australia), to pull the turntable. Also would you know what the big red stripes are for either side of the front of the tender. I imagine aerodynamics,but in a " cute" way, they almost look like blinkers on a horse.
Nice job converting 761 to Kadees ( hee hee ) ! I guess Britain is changing to all Janney type knuckle couplers and eventually even the buffers will be gone.. No?
Goodday Brendan,
Great to see the turntable up & going it would make life easier for the rail operators.
Cheers
Louis 👍
It's a huge win for all operators as now even one loco can lead tender first in both directions.
Dash...it's an electric turntable! Was hoping to see the lads put their backs into it as per a manual turntable. That locomotives just fits too. Well done to the volunteers. Great work, thanks Brenden.
Have u filmed any of the Melbourne metro train lines recently
Excellent material
Thanks Man
Nicely done! 👏🌹✌️
Thanks for looking
Nice video mate good to see the old turn table being restored and used.
Excellent to see table in use again!
This brings back memories of lots of Saturday afternoons in the early 1960s, when my cousin and I used to visit the Ballarat East Workshop to check out all the locos. There was no worry about security then, and we were allowed to wander around anything that wasn't being prepared for work or taken our of service. The workshop then had two turntables under cover, which were surrounded by A2, R, K, N and D3 Class locos, while out in the yard, B Class diesels were kept idling because back then oil was so cheap, and it saved the trouble of starting them up.
Even up until the late 80s there was plenty of action! There's not much variety through Ballarat these days
Hi Brenden. How is the turntable powered ?. I imagine a diesel turbine engine these days.
Although I am sure I have seen somewhere that horses were used ( not necessarily in Australia), to pull the turntable.
Also would you know what the big red stripes are for either side of the front of the tender. I imagine aerodynamics,but in a " cute" way, they almost look like blinkers on a horse.
I've asked the question and it looks like the table is powered electrically. I didn't hear a diesel motor when the loco turned.
Nice job converting 761 to Kadees ( hee hee ) ! I guess Britain is changing to all Janney type knuckle couplers and eventually even the buffers will be gone.. No?
You would hope not. Buffers look the part on the loco
Did you follow the train into ballarat?
Yes. That will appear next week.
@@Schony747 ok cool, i find it great to see different perspectives of things like this
HD is gonna have to do some work to beat this one. LOL
Yep! There weren't many around the turntable that day.
Better than sex. I should know. Thanks mate.
Thanks 😀😀😀😀