Re: Re 103a steam motor
demondriver44
Wednesday, January 2, 2002 12:12 PM
Lord,Lord,I am a poor sinner,I always thought that the W2 was the
absolute pinnacle of human achievement,I confess I was wrong,I have
been worshipping false Gods,103a please forgive me I have seen the
error of my ways.Way back in 1967 the first person to invite me up
the front to actually drive a tram was a feller called Tommy Cross.He
was an ex Sydney trammie,also bus and trolley bus driver."Come up
here son",so up there I duly went,he stepped back from the controller
and it was all mine,admittedly for quite a short time but better than
nothing,my first taste of 600v.It turned out that Tommy had started
his tramway career as an engine-cleaner/conductor at Cronulla on the
steam tramway in the 1930s.He and Bob Murphy had the most complete
street transport careers of all the people I know and Tommys was
about 40 years longer, he was also a veteran of Tobruk,Crete and
other vicious WW2 campaigns and had tales to tell.He was a trammie
through and through and a great bloke to work with.When he started
work he would have worked with blokes who were there in the 1890s,in
the very early days of street public transport.In some ways it seems
prehistoric but its not so long ago really.Regards to all,time to
crank it up again,knock the switches in and run the first car out its
been too quiet for too long, Peter Bruce. --- In
TramsDownUnder@y..., "WALTER Bennett" <wgbtttco@b...> wrote:
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absolute pinnacle of human achievement,I confess I was wrong,I have
been worshipping false Gods,103a please forgive me I have seen the
error of my ways.Way back in 1967 the first person to invite me up
the front to actually drive a tram was a feller called Tommy Cross.He
was an ex Sydney trammie,also bus and trolley bus driver."Come up
here son",so up there I duly went,he stepped back from the controller
and it was all mine,admittedly for quite a short time but better than
nothing,my first taste of 600v.It turned out that Tommy had started
his tramway career as an engine-cleaner/conductor at Cronulla on the
steam tramway in the 1930s.He and Bob Murphy had the most complete
street transport careers of all the people I know and Tommys was
about 40 years longer, he was also a veteran of Tobruk,Crete and
other vicious WW2 campaigns and had tales to tell.He was a trammie
through and through and a great bloke to work with.When he started
work he would have worked with blokes who were there in the 1890s,in
the very early days of street public transport.In some ways it seems
prehistoric but its not so long ago really.Regards to all,time to
crank it up again,knock the switches in and run the first car out its
been too quiet for too long, Peter Bruce. --- In
TramsDownUnder@y..., "WALTER Bennett" <wgbtttco@b...> wrote:
These shots were taken at Parramatta Park before it was overhauledat Thirlemere then subsequently burnt .
I understand reconstruction is well under way.Museum for some years but has now disappeared.
I have some shots of seam tram 1 which was at the Powerehouse
In my opinion No 1 had a nicer livery.]
I will have to find these....................
WGB
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