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Author:  psa188 [ Mon Sep 25, 2023 12:03 pm ]
Post subject:  One year on: a look back at the 3801 Sydney Harbour Bridge c
https://www.thnsw.com.au/post/3801-harbour-bridge-film
Author:  wesp [ Mon Sep 25, 2023 5:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: One year on: a look back at the 3801 Sydney Harbour Brid
The video is well edited and worth watching.
Author:  EJ Berry [ Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: One year on: a look back at the 3801 Sydney Harbour Brid
I'm impressed they got authority to run a steam engine through the subway. Well, London did have steam-powered subway trains the Aussies are a "can do" bunch.

Phil Mulligan
Author:  kew [ Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: One year on: a look back at the 3801 Sydney Harbour Brid
It wasn't being fired through the underground, it was pushed by an electric locomotive at the rear of the train. The film is edited so you can't really see it. See https://www.railpage.com.au/f-p2264475.htm for more info.
Author:  psa188 [ Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: One year on: a look back at the 3801 Sydney Harbour Brid
kew wrote:
It wasn't being fired through the underground, it was pushed by an electric locomotive at the rear of the train. The film is edited so you can't really see it. See https://www.railpage.com.au/f-p2264475.htm for more info.


Thanks. I was wondering about this.
Author:  Frisco1522 [ Wed Sep 27, 2023 10:38 am ]
Post subject:  Re: One year on: a look back at the 3801 Sydney Harbour Brid
Engine has a nice bark to it.
I don't understand working her with the firebox door open like that.
Nice video!
Author:  PaulWWoodring [ Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: One year on: a look back at the 3801 Sydney Harbour Brid
A little like taking NW 611 up Saluda. Not somewhere it would have ever gone normally, but an interesting stunt. Very well done video. I especially liked the written descriptions of what was happening and the history of the route. I knew the Harbour Bridge was the same design as Hellgate, but I did not know that it was meant to be a direct copy of it, and I've been across Hellgate dozens and dozens of times as an Amtrak employee, but not in almost 25 years.
Author:  psa188 [ Fri Sep 29, 2023 3:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: One year on: a look back at the 3801 Sydney Harbour Brid
PaulWWoodring wrote:
I knew the Harbour Bridge was the same design as Hellgate, but I did not know that it was meant to be a direct copy of it, ...


The bit about the Harbor Bridge being a direct copy of Hellgate was one of those "duh" moments where I felt like a moron. Despite living in Noo Yawk for 20 years and walking across the Harbor Bridge in 1993, I just didn't make the connection.
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