Chris Vernell said:
TonyWalsham said:
Steve, Dismals don’t have ugly on their own. Not exactly what I would call fast passenger service.
Heck, isn’t that the Gotthard Express? (Dons flak jacket in anticipation of Coldstream missile)
Nope Chris. Just some good old Aussie ingenuity being applied to solve the problem of removing logs from the forest and carrying workers for the lowest possible cost.
Chris Vernell said:Yes, Tony, I saw the Prototype-OZ in properties, and reckoned it wasn't one of L. Frank Baum's creations. Every so often my evil twin Skippy gets the urge to rib the Rhaetischebahnmeister.TonyWalsham said:Nope Chris. Just some good old Aussie ingenuity being applied to solve the problem of removing logs from the forest and carrying workers for the lowest possible cost.
Heck, isn't that the Gotthard Express?
The Thing has definite possibilities. It’s so ugly you gotta love it.
Chris, Prototype-OZ is just part of the filing method I use on my website. Did you notice the actual name of the device? That was what they called her in Tasmania. I guess I should dig out some more of the oddball stuff I have. Like: How is this for a super elevated 2’ gauge RR on the west coast of Tasmania?
It survived until the ‘60s’ as there were no roads into Tullah until then.
TonyWalsham said:Wow. Could be the angle of the camera, but that looks like a roller-coaster.
Chris, Like: How is this for a super elevated 2' gauge RR on the west coast of Tasmania?
Chris Vernell said:Chris,TonyWalsham said:Wow. Could be the angle of the camera, but that looks like a roller-coaster.
Chris, Like: How is this for a super elevated 2' gauge RR on the west coast of Tasmania?
A Tasmanian devil got the photographer’s posterior just as he relased the shutter. You’d tilt too!
Tony,
OK, so how come the crew on that contraption looks normal? Are you sure that’s in Tas?? 
That is not a distorted view of the Tullah tramway trackage. It really did have such a vertical curve and twist.
More info is here. http://www.railtrails.org.au/states/trails.php3?action=trail&trail=71
More 2’ gauge stuff Worldwide. http://members.shaw.ca/twofooter/ww2ftrrA-C.htm
You have heard of a boneshaker. Perhaps this is where the name came from.
Aaaah!!! the joys of Tasmanian motoring in the early 20th Century
I reckon modern day work safety inspectors would have something to say about this Tasmanian mine.
This is kind of cute though.
TonyWalsham said:
You have heard of a boneshaker. Perhaps this is where the name came from.
Aaaah!!! the joys of Tasmanian motoring in the early 20th Century
Tony, Canuck term for those roads: corduroy roads. Back East there were remnants of at least a section of this type of construction right adjacent to our property line. Yep, part of our property was Class 1 wetlands aka “really valuable swamp”
BTW.
Those Tasmanian pictures were scanned from a long out of print sotbound book.
“Tasmania Remembered”. The early pictures of HJ King.
It includes all sorts of neat stuff including early aviation and boats as well as the trains.
TonyWalsham said:Oops. Da nice safety inspector done tripped and fallen into the mine.
I reckon modern day work safety inspectors would have something to say about this Tasmanian mine.
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:Also known in Ontario as 400-series highways.
Canuck term for those roads: corduroy roads.
Some history. Heres what that engine looked like when first built, before being rebuilt with the high cab.
Apparently, like the Zephyers, the engineers hated the low exposed front end cabs and were convinced that any grade crossing accident would be there last, so the union griped enough to get SF to rebuild the engines with the higher cab location, result? Happy engineers, UGLY engine. Now for really ugly, or just plan odd, who of you is going to drive this down the street with a straight face?
I don’t find that all that ugly…a bit strange…but not ugly. And I’d drive it in a heartbeat. In fact I’d convert it to a motor home and show up at Marty’s in September driving it…:lol:
Me too!!!
Reminds me of the guy in Moses Lake, Wa, who has a street legal replica of a BN Geep.
I got some pics of it somewhere, but can’t find 'em…
jb
While I really like trains, thats just a tad off the deep end for me…
I drove over a Corduroy road up near Witney Ontario, years ago…looked about the same as your pictures…was that near your “Eastern Colony”, Hans…?
Shucks, I’d drive the Oscar Meyer Weenermobile if someone gave it to me…
By the way I saw it going through town not too long ago.
That RV is cool. I wonder if the DMV gave him any hassle about the single headlight?
