Gunzel time...A week on the main south...

In the last week of April, and very early May, I was able to experience, to my great joy and dribbly bonerfacation, working between Goulburn, Braemar, and Yass Junction.

Many opportunities presented themselves to work one's gunzelly filum device extremely hard, and in some rather nice locales.

So, fetch a carton or two, crack some ales, pull up a pew..and enjoy some fine photos of down that way in New South Wales....

More piccies will be added as time goes on, lah.........

To start, here we CLP 12, an unknown EL, and CLF 1, blasting, and certainly producing those special feelings only a gunzel can know, through the former station site of Carrick, between Goulburn and Marulan, on Fri morning, 2 May 2008 on a QR National service between Melbourne, and Brisbane.

And above this, we have NR's 34 and 42 on their way to Victoria, coasting down grade, again at Carrick, passing over the Wollondilly River and the fine bridges therein.

In fast failing light, at a rather gunzelly hack spot on a classic old overbridge, down comes NR's 107 and 23, at the point of "go home" lighting....a little after 5.00pm, Weds 30 April 08.

Oh what a feeling! Having a good feeling of, well, er, something, whilst a Medway quarry train throbs in an intense fashion up Werai Bank, between Moss Vale and Exeter, in perfect afternoon light. In an obvious fashion 81 class fans will be worked up, as 8150 and 8152 be pulling...the load of empties that is.....3.15 pm, Weds 30 April 08.

Gunzel time...C504 at Goulburn!

Yes, here she is, fresh and shining, ready for many more kilometres of hard, throbbing work.

Caught after a cleansing shower, lurking in Goulburn yard on Mon 28/4/08.

She has been showing her shiny parts to the world, working sleeper trains down on the "main south", between Braemar for loading, and Yass, for unloading northwards again...

Hmmmm.........C class, enuf to make you forget about the hornbags for a short while..

Gunzel time...Tolls to Sandgate.....

Just when it was started, now it is nearly over....

A very pleasent daytime run to the Tolls siding at Sandgate, Newcastle, with 2 nice, shiny vintage C class locos.

Once employed in Victoria, and built to an SD 40 mechanical design by Clyde in South Australia, their future for a while in the late nineties was a little bleak.

Now here they are, back again and throbbing in New South Wales.

Tolls is shifting its operations to Carrington at Port Waratah, so within a few short days this photo at the Sandgate flyover will be history.

In fact, there is only 2 trips left to run as of today, this coming Thursday 26/3, and Saturday 28/3.

Leaving Sydney around lunchtime from Cooks River, there is ample opportunity for the discerning gunzel to make his record on filum, or his new fangled digital device.

So, here is C507 and C508 on the Sandgate flyover, on Sat 15/3 /08..

Hopefully, it wont tempt any gunzels to reach for, er, certain devices either....

T176....Sydney's foamer train!

Yes...what self respecting gunzel type lurking here in wonderful NSW does not try to photograph, and have a "quiet moment", over this local suburban trip train in the road raging madness of Sydney.

Why?

Well the crackling vintage motive power for starters. For a long time ancient GMs 22 and 27 did a rather fine effort most of the time.

At present though it is Alco 4471, and GM27, doing the pants enlarging work at the front.

However, often, even daily, motive power can be switched around, and then you will see 442's, FL's, 45's and rarely an EL or a GL.

Yes, well what can one say to that?

The other appealing feature is the schedule.

Often first past Sydney's notorious and cursed peak blackout, the hard at work gunzel can lie in bed, with his deviate imagination towards other non rail forms of public transport, and then pick a spot anywhere on the metro goods line to prepare for its arrival.

When current railmags in hand, sometimes with sticky pages, T176's arrival is sure to please, as it hammers past sometime after 9.00am on its return run from Yennora, to Botany.

Departure from our rail choked port is anytime from 12.45 pm on, to again beat the insidious afternoon peak, so if the morning was not enough, a second helping can be again once enjoyed.

For your arousel, here is T176 on Monday 3 March 2008, just north of Chullora Junction.

4471 and GM27 are full of hard, throbbing, power at 1.15 pm, this particular day.