Hat tip to @rpy on Twitter for spotting a V/Line diesel in an old Victoria Bitter commercial.
Archive for March, 2015
Victorian Railways in the Moomba parade
March 10th, 2015
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Back in 1955 the Victorian Railways entered the first annual Moomba parade with a large-scale model of diesel electric locomotive B60 ‘Harold W Clapp’ – the pride of their fleet. Sixty years later, a photo of the same parade float has been doing the rounds of the various ‘remember when’ Facebook groups, ripped from the Victorian Government’s ‘Culture Victoria’ website – so what is the story behind the scale model?
Another copyright infringement story
March 6th, 2015
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The other week I was trawling the internet as I usually do when I stumbled upon a very familiar looking photo on Wikipedia. So what is the story behind it?
Cracked rails across Melbourne’s railway tracks
March 3rd, 2015
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Back in late 2014 the decaying state of Melbourne’s railway network hit the news again, when Channel 9 news looked into the plague of cracked rails. So how long have the railway tracks been in this state?
