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@katrinalaw1479 I wasn't on the trip so couldn't really say why, other than the Garratt had a broken lubricator pipe which had to be fixed before the return trip. Perhaps the crews knew about the broken spring before hand as well... I just don't know. Sorry.

Oh that's ok I was just why the 1772d train had to pull the trip to cunnamulla and not the garret and I was thinking that the garret was to big to go to cunnamulla or maybe if they already had a last steam excursion to go to cunnamulla

We will have to wait and see. I reckon after the Olympics there won't be any money and that will see things fall in a heap. 1754 if it is still being worked on will probably end up with a new maxi cab and 26L airbrake equipment, then head to Cairns.

Hi, no it's the permission that the driver needs to ve able to travel from one station to the next. This ensures that his train is the only train that is on that section of track at that time and that he has no fear of colliding with another train. They used staff ticket as a safe working system, before electric signalling came in.

We're you a fireman on them?

@@adriannettlefold9084 I was, pretty hard work

@@krisdowie7747 are you up to having a talk? can you email me adriannettlefold@hotmail.com I'm doing a youtube project and wanted to talk to steam era guys who worked out this way

Hi mate. If it's with QR, it sounds like you have applied to become a Rail Operater which is a.Shunter's position. This is a good position to get into QR and my advice is to take the job and when a guards job or a Driver's job come up you then apply for that position. External job offers don't come up very often and you might be without a job if you wait for them to offer a Driver's position. Getting your foot in the door into QR is the hardest part. Internal people get first chop over people like yourself as an External. Hope that helps

So just clarifying, with the shunter job, you get to drive and move trains, but only within the depot itself correct? Or do you just direct and attach and detach carriage etc.

@samuelwarrilow407 you don't drive anything. You couple up and detach, you switch points, you do computer work as in train lists, you operate signal panels. You call out trains from the stabling yards and put them into their allotted road when they come back to the yard. Driving is separate to this altogether. Like I said, if you are wanting a job with QR, take any job to get your foot in the door, then apply to become a driver. Otherwise look for a trainee driver's position with Aurizon or Pacific National or Watco

@@adriannettlefold9084 thanks for the advice, i have applied for PN and Watco, couldn't see any trainee positions with Aurizon. But I'll still wait for the results of the operator job and also keep an eye out for QR driver jobs as well. I have a causal job at the moment so I'm not at risk of being unemployed while waiting, but if I'm accepted in some form I'll go straight into the new job.

They're still here.

To my knowledge it needs a lot of work done to re-wire the electrical side. After an audit was done they found insulation on some of the heavy wiring melted and grounded it, from memory somewhere around 2018. It's parked out the back in the workshops at Ipswich.

Yeah She's a good old banga, we managed to claw back some of late running 😉😁

@@adriannettlefold9084 No better man for the job!

I was flying blind... too much white light from the firebox and no light right out in front where it was needed. But we managed.

Were you an engineman Lawrence? Yeah BA doesn't take long to perish does it. They must have got the last of a what was on the pad at the time.

I didn't get to Mayne till 2009, so must have just missed you. And Yes that was to 2 Dad's.

Thanks Neranda. Hope all is well with you. It was good to catch up with Peter, 20yrs since we worked together. Time stops for no one hey. Take care.

Just last Saturday I had 39 & 44 on Nambour mate.

@@Enthusiastic-Trainspotter-BNE Yea I saw those units at Carseldine

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Thanks Bro. Glad you enjoyed it. Going up to the farm to start the crane tomorrow or Saturday. Will try get some footage.

@@adriannettlefold9084 👍👍

Thanks Aiden. Hope you're doing well mate.

Hey Gregg. Yeah Paul has been very generous to me, hopefully I will end up getting some more footage once 971 is up and running or if SDSR manages to lease other locomotives. I don't know what QR Heritage has planned, but they seem to be limited to running from Ipswich to Grandchester at the present, due to the big hole in the ground being built. The film highlights what has been lost to history as is the case everywhere. Hope your project is progressing. Cheers and Happy Easter.

Thanks Lewie and Happy Easter to you and Cheryl.

@@adriannettlefold9084 Remain calm. You know how you get!

I don't think you watched this video all the way to the end, did you? Otherwise you would've seen the photos and the dates. 2012. I don't know these people from out in the sticks these days hahahaha

Yeah I was on Google and it show blue and yellow 1700s class the has the sms sunlander cars at cunnamulla bound for quilpie in 2004

@katrinalaw1479 I asked one of the Aurizon Drivers who was in Charleville for my information and he confirmed the normal workings, but if there was others I will stand corrected

And just yesterday I saw a image of English Electric 1620 with the sms sunlander cars at cunnamulla 2010 bound for Roma street so that must been the actual last passenger train to cunnmulla

22tons give or take

Yeah will do. I believe he is supposed to live in my street, but I haven't ever seen him.

Thanks for sharing

Yeah I soon got the hang of things after this video was taken. Thanks for the advice.

You looked good on the video well done @@adriannettlefold9084

Indian built Air cooled 6 cylinder Ruston Hornsby. 6YDA Mk II.

I do love seeing the sights. I don't know when I will return to my beloved Sicilia. Hopefully again soon. I have another video I am working on which is of one if the tours I did in 2006. I will hopefully have it up after I get home from Perth.

I am not expert at operating this machine, but I have managed to cast the bucket far enough to reach where I needed to on the one and only job I have used it for. You are limited by length of drag rope as to how far you can cast the bucket, 25m.

Thanks mate.

It wouldn't take much to have catastrophic failure of the boom if there was something that hit it or caused twisting, especially during crane work. Lots of video on CZcams with that sort of thing. Where were the machines you saw?

@@adriannettlefold9084 up in washington state by port Townsend

@adriannettlefold9084 I was on a job once where we were removing large concreate piling with a barge mounted 150 ton lattice boom crane.we shook them up with a vibratory hammer a ways up.than we rigged them up with a big ass wire rope braided sling. Too pull them the rest of the way out and trip them onto a barge.we were pulling on one and the braided sling broke the barge we listing towards the piling than all of the sudden sling shot backwards after the sling broke.the main block was hanging up near the boom tip.it swang back like a wrecking ball and broke a bunch of laceings out ot the boom tip section.

Not sure what year Clapham ceased to exist. But the NSW stuff comes in at Acacia Ridge and then on the dual gauge down to Fisherman's Island. I started in Cloncurry so didn't get too familiar with the South East till late, when most of the depots were closed or privatised.

It's a good feeling to look back on a long career and the things we achieve isn't it. I must say I'm nearing 23yrs and I am finding it harder to keep a smile on my dial. People and the culture are not the same, it's sad to see the light heartedness and mateship go out of the job. I reckon I will be looking for the gate sooner rather than later. I loved learning Westinghouse Airbrake. Now no one would even care to know about brass piston and ring, passed the slide valve and pin. Take care mate. And God Bless the Railwaymen.

@@adriannettlefold9084 Totally agree Adrian it has changed so much. Yes tripple valve lol. Bye for now and thanks for your reply.

Cylinder drain cocks

As you know with QPSR I was into diesels and not steam.@@adriannettlefold9084

All good Rob

Yeah, they were all before my time, but Nigel Hawke gave me a heads up on who worked the Saint Lawrence to Mackay sections

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Only when You have the right kind of Fireman. The train made it into Holmes, passed the steepest part of the line, just. If time wasn't a factor, they probably could've made the remainder of the trip up the range with 1079. But they wanted to train out of the way, because it was starting to hold up the Coalies.