Having Watched These "sky Lines" Being Built When Covid First Hit And Having To Shut Down The Station

Having watched these "sky lines" being built when covid first hit and having to shut down the station that was right next to my T.A.F.E school, I can see what this article is going on about. Melbourne is a lot more passenger than freight, hell, it's really rare that you'll even see a diesel or freight train. The only time I've ever seen diesels is at Flinders Street and the City Loop. I also went to the New Port museum last week and am going to try volunteer work when they open this weekend. The tour info man who was sitting with Heavy Harry did say the engine was originally built for passengers and then pulled freight when the war hit, another problem he said about the engine was that it was so heavy that it would break the tracks. I asked him how a restoration effort would go and he told me the money it would take would be a lot and even then, where would they put the engine? The city is completely electric and just not okay for freight anymore, they wouldn't be able to keep the engine local, they'd have to move it further out of the city into more flat country.

Under The Clocks

Do you want lies with that? Rail enthusiasts and misinformation

In our post-Trump world the problem of misinformation and polluting the public discourse has become a major issue. It’s not just the problem

Everyone, do yourselves a favor and read this article.

I don't agree with all of the conclusions of this blog, but it is incisive in its criticism of railfan orthodoxy which lazily persists and is carelessly repeated.

He uses the real life Heavy Harry locomotive to illustrate the point that myths circulate, from gunzels that should know better to people that don't. (The ''sinking into the ground'' at Newport bit is particularly grimly funny, as I've seen that myth in otherwise sympathetic reports).

mutuals, out of curiosity what season were you born in and what's your favorite season?

I went to the Melbourne museum today and there were trains! Also got and idea for a GF for Edward finally.

What a fun month Feb is going to be! I went to the Newport railway museum, I went to the Melbourne museum, I'm going on Puffing Billy this Sunday, and on the Sunday after I'm gonna go to the Diamond Valley Railway. The Diamond Vally was another railway I remember going to when I was younger, I remember shouting and screaming with the other kids when we went through the tunnels, I also remember the horse field they had nearby. I'm gonna go to that one and see if they also have a little workshop or museum you can visit. It's weird, I remember going to Puffing Billy and to Diamond Vally especially multiple times, it's weird to look back on these memories and only really give a care about them now. But I guess it might be a way of coping with my grans passing and a way to get closer to my pa. He apparently loves museums and all this sort of historical stuff. I'm gonna keep looking for more railway stuff, maybe see if they let pedestrians near the yard at Epping.

I introduce to you the ORCADES!

As you have read, the Orcades was a cruise ship built in Barrow-in-Furness UK and made her maiden voyage to Melbourne AU. Now since in the TTTE universe Barrow is sort of blocked by Sodor, I imagine she actually was built on Sodor and her maiden voyage was made to Melbourne just the same.

I like to think Edward actually saw her being built in a cannon au sense, she and him are good friends and she's actually preserved on Sodor. She has a bit if an Aussie accent but the others don't mind, she can easily switch her tones like a switch any how.