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On 6 September 1986, then local rail tour operator Train Tour Promotions chartered a consist of Overland cars for a trip from Adelaide to Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley and back.

The weather wasn't the best, but fortuitously the train stopped briefly at Sandy Creek for safe-working purposes, just as a burst of sun illuminated the train and the storm clouds behind.

Australian National broad-gauge Alco DL531 no.868, recently ex-works, did the honours. Usually on standard gauge, it was only put on BG bogies for a short time after overhaul and 17 days later on 23/9/86 was back on SG.

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Shots straight out of my iPhone... this is my 2018 Toyota Tacoma TRD 4x4 Off-Road truck transformed by the Asheville Vehicle Outfitters in NC to overland and rock crawl... I climbed to the summit of Windrock mountain (traversing one trail segment rated difficult). I then drove down to southern FL.. coming back to IL to finalize the sale of my house. Next spring, I’m heading into the wildernesses of Canada and Alaska, taking a 7+ month photography trip (and that’s just the beginning). It is parked in my driveway here in Macomb, Illinois... but I'm selling the house and will soon be living out of the truck.

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The twice weekly passenger train between Adelaide and Melbourne 'The Overland' drops downgrade towards Callington, South Australia, on the morning of Thursday 11 December 2025.

The service is provided by tourism operator Journey Beyond is is partly subsidised by the Victorian and South Australian state governments. Pacific National are contracted for the 'hook and pull' of these services, usually using one of their NR class locomotives.

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Near Frankfurt am Main

Near Capitol Reef National Park in Utah.

For a tour of the truck, watch this video on my OverLandScapes YouTube Chanel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaHQp59kT3E.

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Shots straight out of my iPhone... this is my 2018 Toyota Tacoma TRD 4x4 Off-Road truck transformed by the Asheville Vehicle Outfitters in NC to overland and rock crawl... I climbed to the summit of Windrock mountain (traversing one trail segment rated difficult). I then drove down to southern FL.. coming back to IL to finalize the sale of my house. Next spring, I’m heading into the wildernesses of Canada and Alaska, taking a 7+ month photography trip (and that’s just the beginning).

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Overlanding in Oregon was simply a delight! This is one of the four different places that I camped in the beautiful Ochoco National Forest in Oregon. This particular spot was just off of the National Forest Development Road 41, one of the main roads in the Ochoco National Forest in the state of Oregon (United States).

I met several wonderful people while I was in this national forest and I now call them good friends. At this particular campsite, I met Mitchel Seals. He camped a night with me and we made some videos for my YouTube chanel (OverLandScapes).

Later, I hiked through the forest seeking a spring of water that found on GAIA GPS and I came across another camping spot that was more secluded and out of the way... but either hiking there or coming back, I lost my cell phone in the forest's undergrowth. After many fruitless hikes back and forth and even enduring a rain shower, I finally found it nearly 24 hours later. It was lying on the ground face up... and barely had power.

Then, I drove in a big loop to the new site I had found. It was there that I met Gary and Jill Miller. Gary had been a BLM ranger in the Steens and he encouraged me to go to the mountain to take pictures. He actually met me there and showed me around the mountain. Their son, Nick, who is now serving as a BLM ranger, had an up-close and personal encounter with a large male cougar. Nick is lucky to be alive. There is a video on my channel where he talks about this dangerous encounter and how he survived.

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*** To view images in chronological order from my recent 4,500 mile (7,242 KM), 4-month overlanding trip from Florida to Washington and back, visit www.flickr.com/photos/stevefrazier/albums/72177720302601994.

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The Overland Track is an Australian bushwalking track, traversing Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. It's walked by more than nine thousand people each year, with numbers limited in the warmer months.

Officially the track runs for 65 kilometres (40 mi) from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair however many choose to extend it by walking along Lake St Clair for an extra day, bringing it to 82 kilometres (51 mi).

It winds through terrain ranging from glacial mountains, temperate rainforest, wild rivers and alpine plains.

The Jeepster is an automobile originally produced by Willys-Overland Motors from 1948 to 1950. It was developed in hopes of filling a gap in the company's product line, crossing over from their "utilitarian" proto SUVs and trucks to the passenger automobile market. The basic model included numerous deluxe features and interior fittings in addition to a high level of standard equipment that cost extra on other automobiles. A total of almost 20,000 were manufactured.

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Durante la década de 1900, el comerciante estadounidense John North Willys montó un comercio minorista de automóviles en la localidad de Elmira, Nueva York, donde se dedicó a la venta y representación oficial de la división Overland Automotive de la Standard Wheel Company. Sin embargo, los continuos problemas en el abastecimiento de suministros lo llevaron a tomar la decisión de adquirir esta compañía, hecho que se terminó concretando en el año 1908. Tras haber adquirido esta empresa, Willys la reestructuró y en 1912 pasó a denominarla Willys-Overland Motors, iniciando una nueva etapa en la industria automotriz. El crecimiento de Willys-Overland fue tal, que en 1913 adquirió una licencia para producir motores desarrollados por Charles Knight, con sistema de válvulas de camisa, lo que permitió el inicio de la producción de una serie de automóviles que fueron conocidos como Willys-Knight. La expansión de Willys incluyó la compra de la Electric Autolite Company en 1914. Previamente, se había hecho con las acciones de la Marion Motor Car Company en 1909 y un predio perteneciente a la quebrada firma Pope Motor Car Company, en la localidad de Toledo, Ohio. Allí, Willys trasladó toda la producción de sus vehículos levantando una importante fábrica, mientras que en 1912 terminó por tomar la decisión de renovar el nombre de su empresa por el de Willys-Overland Motors Company. Las acciones de esta nueva compañía se amplificaron con la llegada de la firma Ewards Motor Company en 1913, la Russell Motor Car Company de Toronto, Canadá en 1916 y la New Process Gear en 1917. Esto último, le permitió a Willys convertir a su empresa en la Willys-Overland Corporation. La lista de compras se agrandó en 1919, al ser adquirida una planta en Elizabeth (Nueva Jersey) que perteneció a la Duesenberg Motors Company. Durante esta primera etapa de producción, la nueva Willys-Overland alcanzó la segunda posición como productora de vehículos de los Estados Unidos, siendo apenas superada por la Ford Motor Company, entre los años 1912 y 1918.

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The original photo was of a whimsical statue seen at the Plimoth Patuxet Musems (Plymouth, Massachusetts ) Photoleap was used to create this image.

If you want to learn more about the museums and their marvelous reenactment center this link will provide information:

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Not quite Midsummer, but close enough when for a short period of time there was plenty of light still to get The Overland emerging from sleeps Hill tunnel in good light before the shadows started to lengthen.

V/Line loco N468 is only about 10Km into its 800km overnight journey from Adelaide to Melbourne on 7 January 1993.

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Indian Pacific liveried NR26 works 5MA8 Overland service from Melbourne to Adelaide on Thursday afternoon on 29-11-07.

Four of Pacific National's GE powered NR class were painted into this scheme and later NR18 into a newer scheme. Later all would receive repaints and a simplified Indian Pacific scheme would be applied

It might be just my imagination, but I think I can see letters painted on the old stonework. Amgourie tea?

Hit a snow storm on the Overland Route somewhere between Green River, WY and Ogden, UT on our way to Las Vegas, NV

The overnight Melbourne to Adelaide sleeper catches some early morning light as it climbs the grade out of Callington, South Australia, approximately 90 minutes from its destination.

At this time the train was jointly operated by the federally owned Australian National and the Victorian state owned V/Line - V/Line EMD X51 is leading AN Alco 934 on 11 October 1987.

Back then it ran overnight in each direction. Today it is privately run (with government subsidy) and only a daylight run twice a week, rarely loading to more than 6 cars.

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toilet door in a grocery store (Alecs Flickr group Brassaï's graffiti/scoring s images. )

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Code blue skies on the historic UP Wyoming Division. Hanna, WY.

NR118 shortly after arriving into Melbourne with 2AM8 Overland ex Adelaide

Monday 24th September 2018

The west wing of the Purple Pub was previously the Exchange Hotel in Croydon and was relocated to Normanton. It was originally painted a light mauve in 1968, then in 1975 a few shades darker, then in 1979 - - full on purple.

Normanton, Queensland:

Normanton, situated in northwest Queensland, is 40km southeast of the mouth of the Norman River on the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is the administrative centre of the Carpentaria Shire.

The coastline in the vicinity of the mouth of the Norman River was explored by Abel Tasman (1644), Matthew Flinders (1802), and Commander John Stokes (1841), but it was the failure of the Burke and Wills expedition in 1861 which concentrated exploratory activity in the area. Prior to then, the only land exploration had been by Ludwig Leichhardt who reached the Norman River in 1844.

Search parties for Burke and Wills comprised overland expeditions led by William Landsborough and Frederick Walker and a maritime attempt commanded by Captain W.H. Norman. Landsborough explored the river in 1861 and named it after the maritime commander. Landsborough's expedition report precipitated a pastoral invasion of the Gulf Country, and by 1867 a European settlement was established on the site of the future Normanton township. The town was proclaimed in August 1868 and town allotments were put up for sale. Interest in the new town was helped by outbreaks of fever in the Albert River (Burketown) settlement, whose population moved to a healthier Normanton.

The Norman River was navigable by shallow draught vessels as far as Normanton, and in late 1867, a dray load of Cloncurry copper ore was dispatched from the new settlement. Smelted metal from the Etheridge Goldfield (Georgetown) was dispatched through Normanton, and the Croydon Goldfield (1886 - 1913) made Normanton both an inwards and outwards freight terminal. The usual civic growth can be traced through these years: post office (1868), telegraph connection to Cardwell (1872), a school (1872), and formation of a borough council (1886). A Church of England began its services in the school of arts, and a railway line was opened from Croydon in 1891. The line was unique, with the use of ant-proof iron sleepers. Two shipping lines ran weekly services between Normanton and Brisbane. A meatworks was opened in 1892.

By the early 1900s Normanton's population was quickly falling as the Croydon field fell away. The economy's mainstay became pastoralism, but many of the holdings were part of national chains such as the Kidman estates which moved cattle over vast distances, dictated by drought and fodder reserves. Throughput of stock in Normanton was highly variable. Normanton was nevertheless the region's administrative centre, and an inaugural connecting flight in 1927 to Cloncurry ushered in a permanent aerial service.

Shortly after reticulated electricity was laid on in the town in 1955 Normanton began a slow increase in population. In 1966 the river punt was replaced with the W. H. Norman bridge, and since 1970 the town's population has doubled to about 1450.

The railway to Croydon has survived as a weekly tourist service; the Gulflander. The station is on the Queensland Heritage Register, as is the Westpac (former New South Wales) Bank, the old Normanton Gaol, and Burns Philp Building. By far the most imposing building, resembling a Queenslander hotel, is the Carpentaria Shire's office. Normanton has local shops - but no longer the Burns Philp emporium for every need - a hospital, golf, and bowls venues, a racecourse and rodeo ground, an aerodrome, a TAFE, a State primary-secondary school and the Gulf Christian College (1990). There is hotel, motel, and caravan park accommodation and a Savannah Guide touring network. The shire library and visitor information centre are in the Burns Philp building.

Source: Carpentaria Shire & Queensland Places (www.queenslandplaces.com.au/normanton).

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Restored and preserved at the National Railway Museum, Overland sleeping car Allambi is moved around the National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide by 801 during an exhibit shuffle around in 27-4-13

NR6 shortly after arriving at Southern Cross with 2AM8 Overland from Adelaide

Friday 11th of January 2019

This seems like a fun idea, until you remember there's not much room to pack stuff you need for an extended camping trip.

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Photographer - W.W.W. - William Walker Wrathall

(b. 2 June 1884 in London, England - d. 11 April 1957 at age 72 in Prince Rupert, British Columbia) - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/ee...

W.W. Wrathall originally opened up a photography shop in 1908 in Hazelton where he was also a telegraph operator. Soon recognizing other opportunities, he closed up that shop moved over to Prince Rupert in 1912, opening up his shop Wrathall Photo Finishing Ltd. He was soon in competition for business with English-born J. Dennis Allen, who had moved to Prince Rupert in 1907 at the age of 27 and opened up the J.D. Allen Photographic Company. Allen was known for his postcards depicting the natural surroundings of Prince Rupert. Allen lived in Prince Rupert – except between 1914 and 1918 when he fought in the First World War – until 1949 when he and his family moved to southern BC. Allen eventually passed away in Victoria in 1966. Many of Wrathall’s photos depict people, buildings, railways, and industry in Prince Rupert, Hazelton, and in settlements on BC’s North Coast and Alaska’s southern coast. Eventually Wrathall gave way to his son Jack and daughter Vivian Comadina who took over the family business in March 1948. LINK to the complete article - about.library.ubc.ca/2008/09/02/bc-history-digitization-p...

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Hazelton is one of the oldest settlements in northern British Columbia; its European settlement dates back to 1866 when the Collins Overland telegraph went through. Hazelton was the original gateway and staging area for the Omineca Gold Rush of 1869-73. It also had the only proper hospital for hundreds of miles in any direction. Another, less appreciated, distinctions was in having dozens of roaming, foraging and howling sled dogs, as nearly everyone had their own team and many were allowed to run free. Transportation options got better in 1891 when the Hudson's Bay Company’s sternwheeler Caledonia arrived from Port Essington. As the head of navigation on the Skeena, Hazelton played host to more than a dozen sternwheelers throughout the next twenty-two years.

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