Hi Brad 

I've worked through the t & c s in the past when preparing  material for the magazine. Google doesn't seem to make things too onerous and what you are proposing sounds right from my experience. Whether the website rules are the same as print rules is something I haven't checked.

Cheers 

Stuart Thyer 

Research Editor 

Light Railways

A road construction tramway is shown in ABC TV's Building Australia
Series 1 Ep 5 The Federation House. It appears in the Daceyville
segment about half way through. Although I have visited the Sydney
suburb of Daceyville many years ago, I am not familiar with the area
so I have no idea if the TV producers just used file footage or if the
real location is Daceyville. It is a moving image, not a still, as the
men shovelling soil into tipper wagons are moving.

I saw quite a few of steam locos in Indonesia (Java) with ordinary oil drums fitted across the top of the boiler, to carry oil for the firebox. Some others had rectangular tanks in this position for the same purpose - to me they looked like domestic roof water tanks!

I think the reason for the oil-firing was at the start of the season, before sufficient supplies of "bagasse" (crushed cane) had been accumulated, as this was the normal loco fuel. The oil could also be used to speed up the raising of boiler pressure, and also if the loco ran out of bagasse on the run (it was consumed at quite a rate). I think it could also be used as as a "boost" to the fire when working hard.

In Romania in the steam era they used a similar system of auxiliary oil-firing on top of the usual coal, to boost performance of their locos - I don't think that Romania had access to good quality coal, but they had plenty of oil.

-- 
Brian Rumary
England
brian(at)rumary.co.uk

Hi Guys,

About 15 years ago, when I lived up in Sunny Queensland,I was Hon. Sec. of the S. E. Queensland branch of the LRRSA  and we had a nice guy who came every so often to give us a lecture and enthrall us with his photos of early Indonesian industrial steam locos.

He showed some fascinating photos of a small tank loco which had been converted to oil-firing and to store the fuel they had adopted the novel expedient of strapping a couple of 44-gallon oil drums up on top of the roof so that the diesel fuel fed by gravity into the firebox furnace.

I always liked the idea, and Now, I'd like to kitbash one of my small On30 steamers into an oil-fired loco using this idea, BUT, now, I can't remember If the two 44-gal drums were strapped up on top of the cab roof or on the top of the firebox in front of the cab.

-- 
Lynn Zelmer
Box 1414 Main Post Office
Rockhampton, QLD 4700 AUSTRALIA

Hi Guys,

About 15 years ago, when I lived up in Sunny Queensland,I was Hon. Sec. of the S. E. Queensland branch of the LRRSA  and we had a nice guy who came every so often to give us a lecture and enthrall us with his photos of early Indonesian industrial steam locos.

He showed some fascinating photos of a small tank loco which had been converted to oil-firing and to store the fuel they had adopted the novel expedient of strapping a couple of 44-gallon oil drums up on top of the roof so that the diesel fuel fed by gravity into the firebox furnace.

I always liked the idea, and Now, I'd like to kitbash one of my small On30 steamers into an oil-fired loco using this idea, BUT, now, I can't remember If the two 44-gal drums were strapped up on top of the cab roof or on the top of the firebox in front of the cab.

I wonder If anyone can recall seeing a photo of this kind of Indonesian 'backwoods' engineering on the internet, in a book or in a video ?

If so, I'd be very grateful If the could point me towards it.

Thanx. Much appreciated.

Frank Savery,

w-a-y down south in Tasmania

I have now located the approximate locations of the two permanent tramways that operated out of the Harwood sugar mill in northern NSW, i'd like to do an article for the magazine but would like to know who does the coloured maps  and their contact details.

Chris