I liked seeing the horse pulling the trailer into the depot. I often
wondered how cable tram depots got the vehicles in and out. While a crew
might manhandle a trailer at termini, putting a whole barn full of them
away at night is a lot harder.
MS
On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, 10:26 am Len, len.millar@...> wrote:
> Don’t apologize, Mark Skinner! I hadn’t seen it before, but I’m glad
> now! So thank-you for posting it!
> A few things caught my attention – including old motor cars veering on and
> off the tram tracks (so what’s new?), bogie cable tram “cars” (trailers) in
> operation in Elizabeth Street, and what looks like police-man-directed
> “hook turns” in Swanston Street. But the crème-de-la-crème was two
> segments where cable tram grip cars and trailers separated (whilst slowing
> down at a terminus) with the Conductor “pulling the pin” between the
> trailer and the grip car while still moving. A double set of cross-overs
> would obviously have still been to get the grip car around the trailer to
> start running again. From my year or two driving the motorized cable tram
> set at the TMSV’s Bylands property in the 1980s, I could never imagined
> such a manouvre!
> And I was impressed at the “W2”s belting along St. Kilda Road – overtaking
> the motor cars! Bliss!
> Thanks again, Mark!
> Len Millar
>
> *From:* Mark Skinner emessk@...>
> *Sent:* Monday, August 02, 2021 9:37 AM
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> *Subject:* [TramsDownUnder] Watch "Melbourne Made." on YouTube
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> https://youtu.be/so9F_TUfhOw
>
> Apologies if this has been posted before.
>
> Mostly cable trams, some electric trams, short railway clips and horses.
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