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Watching some random YouTube video, and encountered an example of the cranky yankee practice of not providing holding sections on their gated crossings. So the gates open half way, then the next train enters the approach, and the gates close again.

And yes I just videoed the TV like a slacker.

It's definitely a latergram but I thought I would share some classic Victorian and South Australian signalling made from Lego, that I spied on the weekend.

It’s real. (from Facebook)

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This is slightly interesting, a US tourist railroad is going to have a go at converting some ancient Alco diesel electric locos to battery electric.

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FYI I can't get DM's to work on this platform, so I sent you a DM on the terrible platform.

Those photos of Vite Vite are a few years old now! That hut may be one of the huts now hiding at Newport Workshops of all places, unused.

I think it's planned works, the Sandy's are bussed today and the Werribees are turning back at Southern Crustacean.

From time to time I put a fake birthday of 1/Jan/1970 into online accounts in a futile attempt to push back against the insane amount of information tech companies yearn for. Anyway it seems my google account must have a fake birthday as I just got this... :/

Apparently this will definitely be the year for Linux on .... the bathroom heater / fan / light.

30 years ago today, it seems I travelled on an AREA organised nut special from Seymour to Albury and return, using DRC43, which was and still is in the custody of what is now SRHC. Photo locations for this selection are:
- Bowser Loop (which was never commissioned!)
- Chiltern
- Wangaratta
- Albury

Surprising me while I was browsing a random online shop, it seems the Tasmanian independence movement has been successful without anyone really noticing. Maybe the WA secessionists can learn something.

Blue sky pinged me for the whole date of birth thing. Naturally I used an auspicious day, to remind us the 2038 problem is now only just over 12 years away.

That ex APM 1939 Malcolm Moore still exists I believe, last known to be slumbering away the years at Muckleford.

Yeah one could easily imagine DL1 would have trundled around Ipswich in 1939 for trials.

A note has been passed to me from the hair splitting department, enquiring if the NSWGR 79 class locos could be considered as predating these?

One thing that has just dawned on me, they don't (yet?) have ads on the PSD facade. It's actually nice having unbroken visibility along the platform, I do hope they remain ad free.

This is a pretty cool space, it's just a pity there will be a hulking great electronic advertising sign here.

This is a pretty cool space, it's just a pity there will be a hulking great electronic advertising sign here.

Yeah the temporary junction only has something like 1:8.25 crossing angle, so is <40 km/h. With a straight railing the resulting reverse curve is close to or at line speed.

Here we have a westbound service that has just arrived at WFY in a CBTC protected mode. As this is a transition platform, the platform departure signal is held at stop until the train changes to conventional signalling mode.

The end CBTC sign at West Footscray. This one is for all of our friends out there who really don't like CBTC.

I also got a happy snap of a Comeng running a SUY line service. Once February comes around the SUY will be 100% HCMT, and once the western portal junction is gone the non-HCMT fleet won't even be able to get over this side of town.

Certainly as a sitting pax on the 1st car of the 1st westbound, the onboard staff spent a lot of time encouraging standing pax down the train. I suspect the loading was a little front heavy.

The trains berth in the underground stations pretty swiftly. It's nifty.

Yeah the westbound train was basically full and standing after Dandenong.

This train is getting quite full, I honestly didn't expect this amount of pax.

Anyway I am onboard the leading car, and we'll see how we go.

There were quite a few people who have decided to do similar. They even put some queueing arrangements in place.

I've elected to journey to East Pakenham for a little trip thru that damned tunnel.

Last time I was in the US in 2018 I was staying at some random hotel, and the day I left a bunch of rooms had been set up like this...