Uploads from navarzo4, tagged steam

Ride the Gravy Train and Drive the Crazy Train !

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:02:38 -0800

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"I vont ur clothes, ur vollet, und ze keys to ur locomotif!" 8-) Oh hang on I've already got the keys! *Evin sniggery grin*

P6071491 - My 1981 Saab 900 8V turbo sedan 'chugging' out of the oil filler pipe

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:10:35 -0700

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Some people say this is good and some people say this is bad.

I am fairly sure the engine, being very old and tired, has a fair bit of blow-by occuring due to worn piston rings.

P6071492 - My 1981 Saab 900 8V turbo sedan 'chugging' out of the oil filler pipe

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:10:35 -0700

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Some people say this is good and some people say this is bad.

I am fairly sure the engine, being very old and tired, has a fair bit of blow-by occuring due to worn piston rings.

16122011 - Steaming up 'Marjorie' after a boiler inspection at Richmond Vale railway museum

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:32:39 -0800

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A real industrial locomotive. Along with sister locomotive 'Kathleen', these two units assisted many other locos in BHP steelworks both at Newcastle and at Port Kembla. Over the years the steelworks locomotive fleet has changed and these days the steelworks rail operations are run by private operators (Pacific National does the Port Kembla rail operations, and GWA does the Whyalla rail operations) rather than in-house like they used to be until the early 1990's. Newcastle steelworks closed in the mid-1990's.

P7180119 - Steam locomotive watering tank at Adelaide River in NT

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:04:38 -0800

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P7180122 - Restored steam-powered water pump at Adelaide River in NT

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:05:08 -0800

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This pumped water from the dam into the elevated water tank.

P7180120 - Elevated steam locomotive watering tank at Adelaide River in NT

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:04:49 -0800

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P7180121 - Restored steam boiler and steam-powered water pump at Adelaide River in NT

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:04:59 -0800

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This pumped water from the dam into the elevated water tank.

P1181611 - Abandoned broad gauge turntable at Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsula

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:00:21 -0800

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Not sure when it was last used (probably pre-AN back in the SAR days?) but all the trackwork to the table is still there albeit very overgrown and abandoned.

P1181609 - Abandoned broad gauge turntable at Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsula

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:59:53 -0800

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I don't think the former SACBH facility (which had quite an extensive rail connection) is abandoned though.

P8120202 - Concrete plug section built by US army in old Otford tunnel at Stanwell Park end

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:47:55 -0800

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This was the main Illawarra railway line route between 1888 and 1920 when the present-day double track mainline replaced it. From about the time it was closed as a railway tunnel until the mid-1990's it was used to grow mushrooms.

During WW2 the US military deliberately bombed a section of the tunnel about 150 metres in from the southern portal in order to stop a perceived 'yellow peril' Japanese invasion which never happened. After the war the collapsed part of the tunnel was partially repaired with a shoddy concrete box structure which is now, sadly, quite badly decayed and quite unsafe.

This tunnel was the longest of all 8 of the original single-track tunnels between Waterfall and Scarborough, being over a mile (more than 1.6 km) in length it would have been one of the longest railway tunnels in the world when constructed in the late 1880's.

The route of the original railway from this tunnel portal is now the present-day Chellow-Dene Avenue (which turns into a muddy dirt track after the last houses on the road) and the lower part of Sir Lawrence Hargreave Drive which runs through the main part of Stanwell Park, under the original railway footbridge and around to Coal Cliff where the original aligntment joins back up with the present-day alignment before it heads into Scarborough Tunnel.

P8120201 - Looking up grade towards US army concrete plug inside southern portal of old Otford tunnel at Stanwell Park

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:47:55 -0800

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P8120203 - Looking out of southern portal of old Otford tunnel at Stanwell Park

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:47:55 -0800

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P8120200 - Standing on material filling track bed at southern portal of old Otford tunnel at Stanwell Park

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:47:55 -0800

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043 - South end of old Otford tunnel at Stanwell Park in NSW

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:02:19 -0700

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044 - Southern portal of old Otford railway tunnel at Stanwell Park in NSW

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:02:19 -0700

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Thirroul loco depot in the 1950's

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sat, 18 May 2013 23:50:04 -0700

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P1181610 - Abandoned broad gauge turntable at Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsula

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:00:11 -0800

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P1181608 - Abandoned broad gauge turntable at Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsula

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:59:41 -0800

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NSWR (AD)60 Beyer-Garratt steam locomotive model in HO scale brass by Mansfield Hobbies

nobody@flickr.com (navarzo4) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:19:15 -0800

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I'm not sure if this is an original version or one of the later revisions that David Anderson produced in conjunction with Samghonsa.