The Bennett Brook Railway is a narrow gauge railway located inside Whiteman Park in Perth, Western Australia and is entirely managed and operated by volunteers.
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I dunno, rose tinted specs? all sat here in our clean homes. Truth is steam was awful, an awful time where the working environment was just dreadful. Thank goodness its gone.
It’s so great to see real men working instead of the tattooed, ponytailed, bearded freaks who now make up so much of this part of the blue collar workforce.
The whistle in the middle was always my favourite due to how much control you had of what sound was being made, made it extra fun to play with on Ashley day 😂 But the logging whistle she has now is the best!
I love these old films from the 40s and 50s, it gave an aire of correct procedures. It almost makes me want to live their again. I wonder if people queue in L9ndon for the bus like we did in the 1960s. I moved to Aus and it was a free for all to get on the bus. I remember probably around jumping the queue and the conductor reported me to the school, i got called in the old mans office and he said that i was bringing the re p utation of the school down,he was very proud and he of course was right. It wasnt something i did but i was just being stupid around school mates which teenagers are known to do. I nver got the stick, just a telling off.😊
I don't see what Beeching was supposed to do, since BR was in the middle of fundamental changes in its business model, already losing money on lightly-used trackage, competing against motor vehicles, etc. At least in theory BR was addressing long-term issues. Maybe the axe was dull, and clumsily wielded In America our Interstate Commerce Commission refused to let our privately-owned railroads abandon trackage, let alone passenger or freight service, under the theory of "it's a public service you have to keep running", even while losing money due to lack of freight or passengers now moving by motor vehicles. The long-term financial losses sustained weakened several U.S. railroads, until route abandonment and rail service cutbacks were finally allowed. But by that time there had been railroad failures, such as the Penn Central in the 1970's. In some places small regional or local railroads took over the lightly-used or abandoned branch lines trying to save freight rail service over the next 30 years or so. Passenger train service was taken over by our Amtrak; commuter services were sometimes contracted operations under State control, or still local commuter operators (Metra near Chicago, Boston's MBTA, etc.).
Back in the 70s a fellow "hoboing" buddy of mine and I hopped many a freight train between Plainview (south of Boulder) and Grand Junction. We rode past this very spot but I don't remember a thing about it. I never heard of this accident til now. I don't even remember a siding called Troublesome. I wonder if it was still there then, or if it had been renamed. Them was the days.
Ha! Back in the 70s, I hired on as a trainman with the D&RGW out of Denver. In our training classes, along rules lectures, we watched this film and a really gory Chessie System safety film.
Amazed at the thinly-veiled racism in the comments. Also, don't forget that Beeching and his boss, Ernest Marples, had vested interests in road building. The latter fled the country for tax evasion. Can't remember who was the government then but I think I can guess.
The moral of the story is this: Driving a Locomotive is like Driving a Car. You must ALWAYS be alert and aware of your surroundings and what you’re doing.
In the 1980s, there was an accident just miles east of this one. It was an east bound freight on a sharp curve at the west side of Byers Canyon. The tracks are elevated on the north side of the Colorado River. US40 is on the south side and in a deep cut. There is a bluff, with a side road on the south side of US40. A perfect viewing area. I remember that one of the locomotive was perpendicular to the tracks with it’s nose almost in the river. Of course, the local fire departments were attempting to prevent diesel from flowing into the river. All locomotives and at least 10 cars were off the tracks. One of the derailed boxcars contained spices. The smell reminded me of walking into a spice store in the 1950s. News said the engineer did not reduce speed before entering curve.
I worked on that division as a trainman back in the 70s and 80s. The stretch from the end of Gore Canyon to Byers had a speed limit of 60mph but that first curve entering the canyon was only good for 20. On one trip, I was working the head end with an older engineer who tended to sit slumped down in his seat with his cap over his eyes but at the appropriate moment, he'd always raise his head and make a brake or throttle adjustment. As we approached Byers Canyon doing 60, I kept looking over at him, waiting for him to take action. Finally, at the last possible moment, he popped his head up, set the brakes and we hit the curve doing 20. When we arrived in Denver, I asked the conductor about this guy. "Oh yeah. He does that. You'll get used to it."
