Re: Australia/New Zealand cable trams
roy.winslow
Monday, August 27, 2001 4:24 PM
Joe,
You may still be able to pick up a copy in Australia of Mind the
Curve. With the exchange rate the way it is, it should be attractive
to you. I remember picking my copy up about 2 years ago for around
$30AUD, about $17US depending on the day... A couple of rail-based
bookstores offer mail order- the Railfan Shop in Melbourne and the
ARHS shop in Sydney.
Just to whet your appetite even more, the ARE (Australian Railway
Enthusiasts) put out a hour-long video in 1988 on the Melbourne cable
trams with fantastic coverage of the lines that survived until the
1930's (about half the original system). It also shows inside the
cable houses, shunting proceedures (Melbourne universally used an
open dummy pulling an enclosed end loading saloon trailer, mostly
single truck, but with a few bogie traliers on the long, straight and
flat Brunswick line).
The real treat is a few minutes of footage of the final line to close-
the Northcote line- in FULL COLOUR! Remember, colour movie film was
only commercially released in the late 1930's...
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You may still be able to pick up a copy in Australia of Mind the
Curve. With the exchange rate the way it is, it should be attractive
to you. I remember picking my copy up about 2 years ago for around
$30AUD, about $17US depending on the day... A couple of rail-based
bookstores offer mail order- the Railfan Shop in Melbourne and the
ARHS shop in Sydney.
Just to whet your appetite even more, the ARE (Australian Railway
Enthusiasts) put out a hour-long video in 1988 on the Melbourne cable
trams with fantastic coverage of the lines that survived until the
1930's (about half the original system). It also shows inside the
cable houses, shunting proceedures (Melbourne universally used an
open dummy pulling an enclosed end loading saloon trailer, mostly
single truck, but with a few bogie traliers on the long, straight and
flat Brunswick line).
The real treat is a few minutes of footage of the final line to close-
the Northcote line- in FULL COLOUR! Remember, colour movie film was
only commercially released in the late 1930's...
--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Joe Thompson" <cable_car_guy@h...> wrote:
Roy: Thank you for writing.Line.The last Syndey cable tram ran in 1904 on the King Street Cable
historyAn excellent history of this line is contained in the Watsons Bay
Line by David Keenan, published in about 1989/1990. A similar
systemof the North Shore cable line is given by the same author in the
North Sydney Lines, published some time earlier.
The best history of the Melborne system, reputedly the largest
Bay Areaunder a simgle owner in the world is Mind the Curve by John Keating
1971, republished in the early 1990's.
I've been looking for a copy of Mind the Curve in a San Francisco
library and so far have come up dry. I'll add the Sydney books tomy wish
list.http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Regards,
Joe Thompson
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