Outboard Sizing

yeah, this one is further north, it seems to be moving fairly quickly which might prevent serious flooding.

 

According to ARTC, there are 28 sites where to repair the line, "significant engineering solutions" will need to be found. So much for needing desalination plants! More dams to store the water would have been smart; Tim Flannery deserves defenestration.

 

No mention on the news here about disruption to transport of coal, but that is a different state. It would be a priority to get it moving to port, as a major part of the economy here. Maybe the open cut coal mines production has been affected too. Yes, the predicted "permanent drought" was a bad guess, seemingly, although many inland areas have still to come out of drought. They are, however, mainly histrically low rainfall areas anyway.

 

Railway Herald.

 

You sound like a railfan, Pericles ?

 

Si senor.

 

Great fun here recently with the re-enactment of the 1915 "troop train" from outback Winton to Brisbane, as part of the 100 years ANZAC Gallipoli commemorations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVc1krDGriI

 

Rather more sombre & moving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTg17DxABY0

 

Including the water tanker, I think there's about 450 tons behind the tender. That's an impressive load for a relatively light narrow gauge 4-6-0.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland_BB18¼_class_locomotive

 

Thanks guy's. I had thought about getting the prop further down, but I don't want to add additional resistance, and you are correct, I'm not planning on going to sea in any adverse weather off the coast of Sunderland and South Shields.

Very moving video.. I am an ex Royal Navy Gunner, I can only imagine how horrific it would have been on board those vessels.