Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFDlKEylJB0
Australia is a place of many, many unique traits. One of them is having just so many ridiculous locomotive and other rolling stock designs seemingly built entirely out of stuff they had laying around. The results are mixed, as one can imagine.
🚂 Further reading 🚂
Ezard’s Frankenstein:
http://media.lrrsa.org.au/vedi079/Light_Railways_079.pdf
https://www.foresthistory.org.au/newsletter/afhsnewsletter79.pdf
http://media.lrrsa.org.au/edow124/Light_Railways_124.pdf
https://www.lrrsa.org.au/LR212_3-8.pdf
Vacuum tram 6, the “all day sucker”:
Anecdotal experience from yours truly from both tram track cleaning and tram driving.
‘Destination City’, 4th Edition (1980), Cross, N. E., Henderson, R. G., & Kings, K. S. Australian Electric Traction Association.
Snorting Liz:
http://www.australiansteam.com/Snorting%20Liz.htm
http://media.lrrsa.org.au/cato095/Light_Railways_095.pdf
https://www.lrrsa.org.au/Light%20Railways%20224%20lowres.pdf
Koondrook Tram:
https://vicsig.net/infrastructure/line/Koondrook
https://pjv101.net/cd/pages/c459m.htm
Kerang Historical Society and Museum information display.
JK6 (presumably meaning Joke 0-6-0):
http://media.lrrsa.org.au/pola209/Light_Railways_209.pdf
http://media.lrrsa.org.au/podu248/Light_Railways_248.pdf
Cabless Dash-8:
https://www.pilbararailways.com.au/bhp/dash8.php
Sydney trambulance:
https://www.sydneytramwaymuseum.com.au/tramway/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/337_-_Trolley_Wire_-_May_2014_219.pdf
“Six-Wheeler”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrawah_Tramway
http://media.lrrsa.org.au/biko041/Light_Railways_041_044.pdf
http://www.australiansteam.com/HC380.htm
Pick-a-back/Piggyback:
‘Riders of the Steel Highways’, (1997), Luke, M. Hyde Park Press.
‘The History of the Pichi Richi Railway, (1984), Babbage, J., & Barrington, R. Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society.
‘Locomotives and Railcars of the Commonwealth Railways’, (1996), Fluck, R., Marshall, B., Wilson, J., Drymalik, C., Carter, M., & Sampson, B. Gresley Publications.
Ballast locomotive:
‘Locomotives of Australia, 1850s-2007’, (2007). Oberg, L. Rosenberg Publishing.
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