Hi everyone, Just want to put a question to the collective knowledge here. The last couple of days I have been reading through the Google rules governing the use of Google Earth and Streetscape images

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.

1917 Southside Brisbane track profiles including many closed or greatly rebuilt lines so broadly part of LRRSA interest areas. They also show track gang areas. These are courtesy QLD State Archives (Q

I did a tour on Bruny Island today and saw some log bogies sitting on log rails at Lunawanna on Cloudy Bay Rd, just east of Bruny Island Main Rd. Unfortunately the tour bus didn't stop and I wasn't qu

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

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 enth

They were mounted on the boiler in front of the cab. See https://youtu.be/MIH-Sy2T70M This was Sragi mill - 600mm gauge. John

Hello Frank Several of the Philippine mills converted their locos to oil-firing as well. The photos I have show that they mostly did so using the existing tenders (even their tank locos had tenders fo

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 kno

As many know, Queensland State Archives (QSA) have Hard Batch series of railway correspondence. These are large bundles of correspondence and often include the large track plan blue prints that are me

Broadbeach monorail tracks across the Gold Coast highway at Broadbeach have been removed. No sign of the pylons or track this afternoon and the exit out of the eastern side shopping centre has might b

I would be happy to be corrected, but perhaps there may have been locos which may have been out of the batch of Baldwin units of type DHC12M mk2 built 2/70 under Job 3225 for operation on the South Ea

Hello all, I've just got email email from the Dromana & District Historical Society (http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dromana/) about a talk they are having this coming Tuesday (11am, Old Shire Offices, Poi

Light Railways 255 was posted last Friday 26 May, at Emerald, Victoria. PDF subscribers have already received advice of its availability. This issue includes: - The Clarence River Breakwater Story, Pa

Dear Dave, So, did you email Mark F and reserve your copy? See the flyer posted by Frank F for the details. IIRC it's a 1-time limited-qty print-run, so speak-now or forever hold your peace... Happy M

A few years ago, I mentioned Dr Kevin Rains and other City of Gold Coast Heritage archaeologists conducted an archaeological dig at the site of the Ageston Sugar Plantation at Alberton on the Logan QL

My kind of book :-) David 1/2d

In addition to the EOI flyer posted by Frank recently, please see attached the cover artwork for this forthcoming book by Mark & Angela Fry. Cheers, Dan Pickard

The new version of QLD Globe and not Google Earth based https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ Cheers Peter Cokley

Hello all, The attached pdf may be of interest to members of this group. It is about a forthcoming limited print run book on Tasmanian timber tramways. Regards, Frank