3801

[den]

Last weekend 3081 visited Dubbo. This is 3801.



It's a streamlined 38 "Pacific" class engine from the 1930s, restored and now pulling 1929 vintage carriages on tourist runs around the state. It was booked out so I had to chase it by road to get my photos. There were a lot of us steam tragics in the convoys.

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of excursion trains around Sydney. The Cockatoo Line runs from Wollongong up the escarpment to Robertson, and the Zig Zag is a steam (sometimes diesel) train that runs from the top of the Blue Mountains to the bottom and follows the original switch-back line over viaducts and through tunnels.

And of course there are the regular XPT passenger services from Sydney to various centres.

Trains are triffic.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

One of my dream holidays is to ride a road/trail tourer (one of those BMW GS Paris/Dakar jobbies) from Port Augusta to Alice Springs, following the old Ghan route. Brilliant scenery, lotsa funky old rail gear along the way, and something to follow so you won't get lost...

(Ooh, and more rail-themed funkiness: the Sydney Cave Clan (http://sydney.caveclan.org/) report on the St James tunnels (http://sydney.caveclan.org/articles/070703C/index.html). I was a regular explorer down there back in my teens...)