Re: P&MTT Remnant/OZ Kodachrome processing service
adyoung63141
Saturday, August 31, 2002 11:31 PM
--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "adyoung63141" <dayoung007@h...> wrote:
Message 3580 didn't go through as it should have done-here it is
again.
I photographed this crest also, on August 18-Kodachromes were mailed
from St. Kilda post office next day, came back from the lab in NSW to
me here in St. Louis US Thursday August 29. Send them to Kodak, Fair
Lawn NJ US and you can expect to wait up to 3 weeks. Terrific service
from the OZ Kodak lab but oddly nothing on the mounts or box indicates
they are a Kodak product any more, much less Kodachromes.
The Malvern crest is dated 1910-the foundation stone lower down is
dated December 1909 and is a wonderful artifact. Like the rosette (is
it, or is it something similar?), it could do with attention to the
mortar in the brick-work in the form of tuck-pointing. The upper stuff
around the old rosette should be done before a brick drops and kills
someone, probably platform staff entering or leaving this otherwise
wonderful old municipal red-brick tram depot office block. Not many of
them left now in OZ, the UK or the US, but they really evoke the
sublime self-confidence of the age in which they were built.
Too much tensioning on the rosette or too much weight? It seems to
have been replaced some years ago by a more modern fitting to the left
of the window maybe because the amount of feeder cables and/or
pull-offs and stirrup wires being carried had increased.
You've a wonderful tram system in Melbourne, a most civilized way to
get around outside of rush-hours. But why are the Z cars so shabby and
unkempt nowadays? Rode Citadis cars and as a passenger I thought them
just fine. Also saw and photographed a couple of Combinos out on
test--why have these two quirky European types been bought when the
B2s (some barely nine years old) were supposed to have been
Melbourne's 21st-century car? Purely for the low-floor?
Can someone concisely summarise (again) for me the status of all the
new extensions going in
a. west of downtown and why do the 70s only go just a little way on
the Flinders extn, and the ? (forgotten)line only to the end of the
new Bourke Street bridge by the new Stadium? Where and when are the
cars going to go on the new Bridge west of Collins and where has all
the money come from for this massive investment in infrastructure?
b. In the eastern suburbs and on the Burwood line? Surely these light
rail lines are now getting so long that passengers at their outer ends
would be better served by quicker suburban trains?
Several green Ws out on test--how many are anticipated to go back into
traffic and on what lines? All day service or just part-day? Any
update on how the new track brakes perform?
What's happening with the TMSV and at Haddon? There are rumors, which
are always unhelpful, but no hard information.
Andrew D. Young
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--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., Mal Rowe <malrowe@r...> wrote:Here's the P&MTT crest on the front of Malvern depot.
Note the fate of the brickwork around the overhead
tension point - a result of too enthusiastic
tensioning of the overhead?
mal
Message 3580 didn't go through as it should have done-here it is
again.
I photographed this crest also, on August 18-Kodachromes were mailed
from St. Kilda post office next day, came back from the lab in NSW to
me here in St. Louis US Thursday August 29. Send them to Kodak, Fair
Lawn NJ US and you can expect to wait up to 3 weeks. Terrific service
from the OZ Kodak lab but oddly nothing on the mounts or box indicates
they are a Kodak product any more, much less Kodachromes.
The Malvern crest is dated 1910-the foundation stone lower down is
dated December 1909 and is a wonderful artifact. Like the rosette (is
it, or is it something similar?), it could do with attention to the
mortar in the brick-work in the form of tuck-pointing. The upper stuff
around the old rosette should be done before a brick drops and kills
someone, probably platform staff entering or leaving this otherwise
wonderful old municipal red-brick tram depot office block. Not many of
them left now in OZ, the UK or the US, but they really evoke the
sublime self-confidence of the age in which they were built.
Too much tensioning on the rosette or too much weight? It seems to
have been replaced some years ago by a more modern fitting to the left
of the window maybe because the amount of feeder cables and/or
pull-offs and stirrup wires being carried had increased.
You've a wonderful tram system in Melbourne, a most civilized way to
get around outside of rush-hours. But why are the Z cars so shabby and
unkempt nowadays? Rode Citadis cars and as a passenger I thought them
just fine. Also saw and photographed a couple of Combinos out on
test--why have these two quirky European types been bought when the
B2s (some barely nine years old) were supposed to have been
Melbourne's 21st-century car? Purely for the low-floor?
Can someone concisely summarise (again) for me the status of all the
new extensions going in
a. west of downtown and why do the 70s only go just a little way on
the Flinders extn, and the ? (forgotten)line only to the end of the
new Bourke Street bridge by the new Stadium? Where and when are the
cars going to go on the new Bridge west of Collins and where has all
the money come from for this massive investment in infrastructure?
b. In the eastern suburbs and on the Burwood line? Surely these light
rail lines are now getting so long that passengers at their outer ends
would be better served by quicker suburban trains?
Several green Ws out on test--how many are anticipated to go back into
traffic and on what lines? All day service or just part-day? Any
update on how the new track brakes perform?
What's happening with the TMSV and at Haddon? There are rumors, which
are always unhelpful, but no hard information.
Andrew D. Young
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