So where do Tasrail do their maintenance now?
David
> On 17 Apr 2021, at 3:47 pm, Yuri S. trams4me@...> wrote:
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> On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 09:50:47 +1000, Mal Rowe wrote:
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>> During my recent holiday in Tasmania I managed to ride Launceston 29 on
>> my first visit to the Launceston Tramway Museum at Invermay.
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>> Mal Rowe - who heartily recommends including a visit to anyone heading
>> to Tassie.
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> Agreed, always visited/rode it when installing and uninstalling #2 son at AMC @ UTAS (so about 8-10 times overall).
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> The only "complaint" I ever had was that the 600v "catenary" (ie 600v welding power supply on a trolley) was on the wrong end of the tram - ie it's on the sunny side and would be nicer on the other sunless end.
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> At the time, I offered a sizeable donation ($500) if they swapped it to the other end, but to no avail, unfortunately. Apparently too difficult in parking it in the shed and its exhaust fumes inside the shed when running (so OHS issues).
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> You have to be a little creative to get photos without the genset (too) visible!
> http://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2013/lst/29_lst_7k1_0535.jpg
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> 29 at former Launceston railway station with genset....
> http://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2013/lst/29_lst_7k1_0492.jpg
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> .... and invisible:
> http://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2013/lst/29_lst_7k1_0470.jpg
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> http://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2013/lst/29_lst_7k1_0479.jpg
> outside the Queen Victoria Museum
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> The Tram Museum itself is well worth a visit - 1 and 8 under restoration with beautiful workmanship visible. The trams' interiors were lined with Tasmanian hardwood such as bird's eye maple and Huon Pine (which explains why repurposed as chook sheds they would have lasted forever) but oh the waste when they burned the old bodies.
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> Across the way from the tram museum is the Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery at Inveresk: the steam workshops behind the gallery, left exactly as they were on the day they closed down. Fascinating to see the workshops unsanitised! Even a traverser still outside and out in front of museum in pride of place in its own building a set of scales that were used to weight steam locos and could assess the load on each axle. All still in perfect condition.
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> Other of my Museum photos at http://gallery.steam4me.net/index.php?album=trams/2013/lst
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> Yuri.
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> PS OT but part of museum....
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> On one visit there was a guide/volunteer in the old steam workshops who told us that he used to work there till it closed in the 90s.
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> One of his favourite "party tricks" he'd demonstrate to visitors to the Shops when they were in operation was the brute force of the steam hammer bending steel and then he would gently crack the shell of a hard-boiled egg - such was the skill of the machine shop workers. http://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2013/lst/steam_hammer_7k1_0629.jpg
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