Hi Everybody, and welcome to my channel. This channel is more or less about the various forms of machinery which I have worked or have an interest in, as well as some typical Australian rural scenery . NOTE:- Please read the descriptions under the title. Cheers Adrian.
Hey Adrian, I'm curious how much gear oil does the 22B hold in the main gear splash bath as well as in the gear reservoir located under the drag drum? Thanks for your help.
@cjordan7284 I don't truly know and have discovered the hard way that I have over filled mine to you know where. I ended up getting oil on my swing/propel drums and I'm now in the process of doing my first service as well as degreasing my mistake. I will try get an accurate measurement and let you know once I have finished. Hopefully this weekend.
@@adriannettlefold9084 Interesting. I have a feeling my drain tube between the gear box and the chain case is clogged and the main gear box under the drag drum is not able to drain back into the splash bath. I took 15 gallons out of it last night. I'll drop the bottom end of the spash bath this weekend and see if I can see what's going on. I guess I have a partial answer--at least 15 gallons. ha. Thanks
@cjordan7284 I thought it was a fair bit but I don't know if it that much? We work in Litres and I had a 20L (5gallons) drum but didn't put all that in. But I didn't drain it all first either. Mine had a heap of water and custard type sludge that I started to drain the other day. So tomorrow I will go have another look and change the oil . The two plugs on the bottom of that gear case have about 2inches difference in level or there abouts... so between yours and my attempts we should come up with an answer.
@@cjordan7284 Do you have an email or contact number? I have just finished changing the gear oil on my machine and I found that so far it only took 15Litres tops. I haven't run it enough to see what oil is going back to the swing and propel vertical shaft box. but I did use diesel to clean it and it drained out.. so can only assume the horizontal rubber hose connection is clear.
I remember getting the old wooden rattler home to Newmarket on a Friday and going to work on Monday in the new electrics talk about game changer. Bet that Indian junk won't last 40 years.
@edmcelhone4501 This was something I have learnt to do better. There was actually too much hoist cable and in actual fact it needs replacing as it's not the right type for this sort of work. My latest difficulty, is trying to get an Oil filter. It's a 6YDA MK2 Ruston Hornsby I pulled the old one out and now looks like none of my filter shops can find a replacement. Know of anyone?
@katrinalaw1479 I wasn't on the trip so couldn't really say why, other than the Garratt had a broken lubricator pipe which had to be fixed before the return trip. Perhaps the crews knew about the broken spring before hand as well... I just don't know. Sorry.
Oh that's ok I was just why the 1772d train had to pull the trip to cunnamulla and not the garret and I was thinking that the garret was to big to go to cunnamulla or maybe if they already had a last steam excursion to go to cunnamulla
Like with the passing of the _Capricornian_ to a Tilt Train only service, the withdrawal of the _Sunlander_ and the M series cars has left a noticeable hole in QR's Traveltrain fleet. I noticed the _Westlander_ and _Inlander_ services were sitting car only trains, which would make these services far from attractive to the average passenger for long journies. I feel that QR Traveltrain management have dropped the ball here, preferring to focus on their Tilt Trains and the _Spirit of the Outback,_ leaving a hole in train services to Rockhampton and further into North Queensland. Perhaps their intention is to destroy long distance train travel, aside from the Tilt Trains? As an aside, I found 1754 at Redbank recently, partially stripped. It seems her days are numbered... 😞
We will have to wait and see. I reckon after the Olympics there won't be any money and that will see things fall in a heap. 1754 if it is still being worked on will probably end up with a new maxi cab and 26L airbrake equipment, then head to Cairns.
Hi, no it's the permission that the driver needs to ve able to travel from one station to the next. This ensures that his train is the only train that is on that section of track at that time and that he has no fear of colliding with another train. They used staff ticket as a safe working system, before electric signalling came in.
@@krisdowie7747 are you up to having a talk? can you email me adriannettlefold@hotmail.com I'm doing a youtube project and wanted to talk to steam era guys who worked out this way
Hey Adrian, great video. Just a quick question, so I applied for a Suburban Train Operator job with QR, it’s still in progress but I was doing some research in relation to the position and I think I may have applied for the wrong position. I was wanting to become a train driver but it seems I got mistaken and thought the operator position was the driver job, but instead looks like it’s more shunting trains in a depot instead of driving them on the network. Just wanted to double check if this is correct, and if so do you reckon I should stick with it if successful and then apply for a driver job later down the track (no pun intended), or should I cancel the application and just wait for the driver job to come up instead? Thanks
Hi mate. If it's with QR, it sounds like you have applied to become a Rail Operater which is a.Shunter's position. This is a good position to get into QR and my advice is to take the job and when a guards job or a Driver's job come up you then apply for that position. External job offers don't come up very often and you might be without a job if you wait for them to offer a Driver's position. Getting your foot in the door into QR is the hardest part. Internal people get first chop over people like yourself as an External. Hope that helps
So just clarifying, with the shunter job, you get to drive and move trains, but only within the depot itself correct? Or do you just direct and attach and detach carriage etc.
@samuelwarrilow407 you don't drive anything. You couple up and detach, you switch points, you do computer work as in train lists, you operate signal panels. You call out trains from the stabling yards and put them into their allotted road when they come back to the yard. Driving is separate to this altogether. Like I said, if you are wanting a job with QR, take any job to get your foot in the door, then apply to become a driver. Otherwise look for a trainee driver's position with Aurizon or Pacific National or Watco
@@adriannettlefold9084 thanks for the advice, i have applied for PN and Watco, couldn't see any trainee positions with Aurizon. But I'll still wait for the results of the operator job and also keep an eye out for QR driver jobs as well. I have a causal job at the moment so I'm not at risk of being unemployed while waiting, but if I'm accepted in some form I'll go straight into the new job.
Great units. Sad to see them go. Like classic units in the UK, they've captured many memories in those who travelled on them for so long. 2023 was my last ride in a EMU, No 33
To my knowledge it needs a lot of work done to re-wire the electrical side. After an audit was done they found insulation on some of the heavy wiring melted and grounded it, from memory somewhere around 2018. It's parked out the back in the workshops at Ipswich.
Welcome back to the footplate, Mate. We have missed you. Don't the LED ditch lights chuck out some light. You did not need the poor excuse for a headlight that is on 974.
Very good apart from the religious propaganda at the end. I was unaware the line from Charleville to Quilpie is now officially closed. Mike (ex-Railpage Forums)…”The Vinelander”.
Used be guard Mayne and then went back to shunting at Mayne about 2004 as shunter in charge then a foreman north panel operator. Was ok time and recognised voice of Jeffery Martin as shunter in the end.
I don’t know why but I can just imagine the day that the NGRs will be getting scrapped and how much we will realise how fast time has went but to be honest I may not see them because surprisingly QR like to keep their trains for a long time. From when I made this comment the EMUs are quite hard to find around the network now but I hope they stay around for that little bit longer as they are great trains and I will deeply miss them. 😢
Great to see you back on the Footplate Adrian! I did many a trip behind the "Brown Bomber" in my younger days, when QR actually cared about their heritage??? I haven't seen Steam on the main for a long time now, which is a big shame. Great footage by Paul which adds to your story. Hope to see more from you on the rails. Cheers Gregg.
Hey Gregg. Yeah Paul has been very generous to me, hopefully I will end up getting some more footage once 971 is up and running or if SDSR manages to lease other locomotives. I don't know what QR Heritage has planned, but they seem to be limited to running from Ipswich to Grandchester at the present, due to the big hole in the ground being built. The film highlights what has been lost to history as is the case everywhere. Hope your project is progressing. Cheers and Happy Easter.
Just Wonderful and no, you can' make old friends. SOOOO glad for the Blue Hat Scociety to be back on the footplate where he belogs, even with a coal shovel BUT you lay a nice fire, Mate! Hope you and the gym are getting along. Still grinding here and going to get to do some mowing directly. Toots says she's going to do some with the hand mower to so all innocent bystanders better get out of here till things quiet back down. Hope there's a smile on that fuzzy face of yours! The angels done kicked the stone out of the way and our Savior is long gone but coming again! Can't wait as goofy as stuff is getting. So keep looking up, our pal! God is good, ALL the time. CHEERS, Train Driver! BLESSINGS!
There was a couple of other passenger trips that went to Cunnamulla after this. The last one was with 1620 maybe in 2010/11? It was part of an ARHS trip. 1620 I think may have hauled the Westlander on that trip too? There's photos around somewhere on the interwebs. I believe the trip went to Quilpie and Cunnamulla with the M series prior to the Sunlander being withdrawn.
@katrinalaw1479 I asked one of the Aurizon Drivers who was in Charleville for my information and he confirmed the normal workings, but if there was others I will stand corrected
And just yesterday I saw a image of English Electric 1620 with the sms sunlander cars at cunnamulla 2010 bound for Roma street so that must been the actual last passenger train to cunnmulla
Travelled out to Cunnamulla, Quilpie and Charleville this year. Cunnamulla station has been done up so looks good and has all its history up on displays around the station which is great. Quilpie sadly is not looking so good though there is a small section of the visitor centre dedicated to its rail history. Loved this video, just makes me sad that I am too young to have been able to travel to these places by rail.
Did this wonderful trip many times as a boy whilst on holiday with my mum and dad, It took us the best part of 3 days and two nights to get from London to Palermo. I remember getting the train from St Pancras to Dover, then a ship from Dover to Calais, and then a train from Calais to either Paris or Milan, However catching a train to Milan meant having to wait about 8 hours to get the connecting train from Milan to Palermo as there was only one train a day. I can also remember my father having to produce Passports every time we came to crossing a border, unlike today in the EU. Yes it was exhausting, but at that young age it was like an adventure to me. If seeing sights is your thing then going through Switzerland by train is breath taking. wonderful, wonderful memories I will always cherish.
I am not expert at operating this machine, but I have managed to cast the bucket far enough to reach where I needed to on the one and only job I have used it for. You are limited by length of drag rope as to how far you can cast the bucket, 25m.
I just stopped by a spot on my way home the other day that has a 22b and a 30 b. unfortunately it looks like they over loaded the boom or something else catastrophic happend because it was all over the ground twisted up and bent all too hell from the tip too the but section.
It wouldn't take much to have catastrophic failure of the boom if there was something that hit it or caused twisting, especially during crane work. Lots of video on RU-vid with that sort of thing. Where were the machines you saw?
@adriannettlefold9084 I was on a job once where we were removing large concreate piling with a barge mounted 150 ton lattice boom crane.we shook them up with a vibratory hammer a ways up.than we rigged them up with a big ass wire rope braided sling. Too pull them the rest of the way out and trip them onto a barge.we were pulling on one and the braided sling broke the barge we listing towards the piling than all of the sudden sling shot backwards after the sling broke.the main block was hanging up near the boom tip.it swang back like a wrecking ball and broke a bunch of laceings out ot the boom tip section.
Use to work at TrackFast Chullora NSW now Pacific National, ran super freighters to Indooroopilly from memory. A work mate walked in one day and said he was taking a job at Clapham and they are freighting up all his furniture for free in a 20 foot container. Some days later that was the last I saw of him, I guess he is no longer at Clapham. All changed now, here NSW even freight is all privatised many liveries on different engines left right and centre. Nice Video.
Not sure what year Clapham ceased to exist. But the NSW stuff comes in at Acacia Ridge and then on the dual gauge down to Fisherman's Island. I started in Cloncurry so didn't get too familiar with the South East till late, when most of the depots were closed or privatised.
Awesome video, me 27 years NSW. I wished I had taken a camera over all those years. Different roles, went from Labourer to Car and Wagon Assembler, Car and Wagon Examiner yes Westinghouse then to Ticket Inspector book em Dano. Finally ending up as shift Supervisor Security Control Rail Management Centre RailCorp NSW.
