Don River Railway 29th Jan 2023 Part 2

[@vsvnrg3263]

that loco seems to have a rough idle. i'm sure i heard a similar loco just idling away around the midland yards and it just happily ticked over. theyve done a good resto on some of the carriages. i especially like seeing the really old single axle short carriages. i cant find anything about them on this internet thingy. years ago, when i was really young, nana took her grandkids to ride on similar carriages from one end of a spencer street station platform to the other end then back again. it was years later through the internet that i finally found out what they were. wikipedia described them as "victorian railways best kept secret". or something like that. the cogs and sprockets in my brain turned over and i realised that the old smoko wagon at the railyard near where i grew up was one of these type things and then the realisation that there was one or more at every railyard in victoria. they were never scrapped, just plonked on the ground all around the state. a couple of years ago there was a news item about one of them turned up in a backyard in central victoria. when i researched it i found that these things are discovered every few years in back yards in central victoria. one of them went to the lake goldsmith group. i'm sure they'll look after it.

[@neilblinco1213]

I believe this Tasmanian EE have a fuel saving function which gives that rough idle effect. It barely got out of idle

[@mem9879]

Even now can Don river railway trains run on Tasrail?

[@neilblinco1213]

Not that I am aware of