We dump em in the dirt too
 

G'day,
A recent prang report from our ATSB concerning a coalie derailment mid last year.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/577888...-013_final.pdf
I think that there may be video footage of this incident somewhere on You Tuber.
I remember being told many moons ago that a Good Driver never looks back.
Yeh, because he don't wanna get a nasty surprise.
We have two other wheel / journal incidents also being investigated.
One in Sandgroper country when a wheel disintegrated.
The other here in Cockroach country concerning a doodlebug defective bearing.
Thankfully that doodlebug hogger realized the drama before the train went bush.
One must wonder if the plague and consequent restrictions imposed is effecting car and wagon maintenance inspection.
Though, the coalie derailment occurred well before the plague commenced.
Steve.

A thorough report and thank goodness the member of the public had the good sense to report it immediately. The loco looks like the same type that I saw in a video on the Indian Pacific train (on my bucket list if it still exists in a few years).

The Silver Streak should recommence rattling very shortly.
The Croweater and Sandgroper borders to be opened by Xmas, hopefully.
But, a plague hiccup in smog hollow has seen us Cockroaches under the spot light again.
Social distancing on the Silver Streak, when it does recommence, will reduce the cattle capacity.
So, ticket pricetags will no doubt rise.
The locos seen on that Tahmoor coalie incident are PN 82 class EMD JT42C dogbone shaped dingi.
YUCK !
The Silver Streak is normally dragged by PN NR class GE Cv40-9i dingi.
One NR assisted by a DL class EMD AT42C when the train is the total length.
https://www.railwayforum.net/gallery...imageuser=8578
You wouldn't want any 82 class dingi dragging it.
They suffer from a horrendous Main Generator transition at around 35 kph.
Mind you, the AN CLP class EMD AT26HC-2m nose jobs that did drag it in the mid to late 1990s likewise suffered from that transition.
The go was to avoid travelling at around 35 kph for any period.
Thankfully I don't have dentures, otherwise they would have flown out of me mouth with each transition shunt.
Steve.