That is interesting you have a record of the No. 6 Grab. Serial number 951 would probably be about 1925, No. 6 shovel number 818 was October 1923, and numer 1128 was January 1927. Would you be able to

There were two large Crawler mounted shovels at the Fyansford Cement works, Batesford quary. One is preservered in operating order at Lake Goldsmith, the other one was taken to Sydney, and as far as I

Yes, the earliest photo still show the rigid beam, it is certainly an original part of the shovel. Yours Stephen To: LRRSA@... From: rthorne475@... Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:26:

There is a book "Bucyrus Making the Earth Move for 125 Years" that has a picture of this shovel working at Mount Morgan. It apparently left Mount Morgan and dug a railway line in Queensland some where

The Saddle Line book refers to the Wensleybray open cut coal mine between Wensleydale and Bambra, and not the Benwerrin Mine. The coal was origninally transported from the mine to the railway siding b

John, I think you are wrong. There is such a thing as an "egg ended boiler". This boiler looks pretty much exactly like what they should look like. The book "Historic Steam Boiler Explosions" by Alan

I have just got a reasonably good secondhand copy of this book. The USA based AbeBooks has quite a few of these listed in Australian secondhand book shops at varying prices. Yours Stephen To: LRRSA@ya

Does the "Australia" in LRRSA mean members in Australia researching light railways, or does it mean research on Australian Light Railways. If the later is the case then perhaps the name should be ALRR

The steam driven water pumps are still in thier original location. The people that are rebuilding the dry dock for polly wood side would like to put the pumps back into operation and run them on compr

You are correct. As far as I can gather, heritage listing does not give you any money to fix things, it only makes it more difficult for the owner to do any repairs or works on the structure. Correct

Barlow Rail was used on the Geelong-Melbourne railway line, and a quote from June 28, 1855 taken from the Engineers Report state: ".... we have received a sufficient quantity of Barlow's Patent Rails