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NR118 with the Overland arriving into Ararat to pick up some guests before heading onto Melbourne Southern Cross
Monday 24th of September 2018
The Overlander scenic train stopping at National Park Village for a crew change and passenger lunch break on its 681 km (423 mi) journey from Auckland to Wellington, New Zealand.
National Park is a small town on the central plateau of the North Island of New Zealand. Also known as National Park Village it is the highest urban township in New Zealand at 825metres. As the name suggests, it borders the World Heritage Tongariro National Park, New Zealand's first national park created in 1887. To the West is the Whanganui National Park. The village has great views of Mt Tongariro, Mt Ngauruhoe (Mt Doom in the Lord of the Rings films) and Mt Ruapehu.
The town is sited next to the North Island Main Trunk railway line and close to the junction of State Highways 4 and 47, halfway between Raetihi and Taumarunui and 45 kilometres southwest of the southern shore of Lake Taupo. It is 20 minutes drive to the country's biggest skifields, Whakapapa and 50 minutes drive to Turoa on the slopes of the active volcano, Mount Ruapehu. (Wikipedia)
I happier days the daily overnight broad gauge passenger service form Melbourne is into the last kilometre of it journey as it takes the turnout for the Keswick (Adelaide) passenger terminal on 24 April 1985.
The train at this time was a joint venture between V/Line and Australian National and motive power on this occasion was V/Line EMD-powered locos X48/S311, both still carrying their Victorian Railway 'blue and gold' livery.
Today The Overland is a shadow of its former self running as a day train only twice a week in each direction, and regularly threatened with extinction.
My hometown of Manchester in southeast Michigan celebrated its sesquicentennial (150 years) on the weekend of August 5 and 6, 2017. I visited the classic car show and other events on August 5. Manchester 150 years
All of my classic car photos can be found here: Car Collections
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An old Overland car dealership building. Later, Overland combined with Willys which gave us the Willys JEEP.
Springfield, Missouri, part of 66.
The Overland keeps just ticking along year by year, although a lot smaller than years past. On 5-4-21, NR10 brings 2MA8 Overland into Dimboola for a crew change before heading off once again to Adelaide
Overland Park, Kansas Fire Department's Quint 42
Picture ID# 7010, 7011, 7012
HDR - High Dynamic Range
Afghanistan: August 1971
This is an AEC Reliance bus I was co-driving from London to India; it is seen here, parked on the Khyber Pass; this was a popular stop for passengers to take photographs. From here, through the heat haze, you get a glimpse of a vast plain stretching as far as the eye could see – the first sight of the sub-continent of Pakistan and India.
Two ladies – possibly mother and daughter – posing with a Willys-Overland on the side of a road in the countryside. The unusual streamlined car is registered in Belgium.
Country of origin: Belgium
Less than two months after passing from government to private operation, 'The Overland' Adelaide to Melbourne overnight passenger service catches the late evening light as it passes Ambleside in the Adelaide Hills.
It is being hauled by a GE-powered, Goninan-built NR class loco, under a hook and pull arrangement with government owned operator National Rail.
At the time (1997) it was still a daily overnight service; today its future hangs by a thread and it only operates twice-weekly as a daylight train.
Union Pacific DDA40X 6945 rolls west in the Feather River Canyon with symbol OMW, the Overland Mail West, above Paxton, CA late in the afternoon of June 17, 1984.
NR88 rounds a curve with a respectable load on Great Southern Railways Melbourne bound Overland service
Pacific National NR class NR95 leads the Melbourne bound Overland past the now disused signal cabin at Dimboola, Victoria
Turkey: October 1971
While driving this AEC bus from India to London I lost control of it and slid off the road in north-eastern Turkey. This happened at over 5,500 feet elevation on the old dirt road from Agri to Horasan; a couple of hours previously, I'd driven over the snow-covered Tahir Pass (approx. 8,000 feet) without incident, but as we got lower down, the road became a treacherous surface of snow melting on top of mud.
In the background is a yellow truck, bound for Tehran — this was a Scania 140 truck and drawbar trailer operated by the English company, Asian Transport (later renamed Astran). The Scania driver, Dick Snow, offered to drop his trailer and pull the bus back on to the road with a chain, but then another English truck turned up – this one was an ex-Army Bedford belonging to another of the overland companies. The driver of the four-wheel-drive Bedford took over the recovery operation and pulled the bus back onto the road with a wire hawser. The bus was unscathed, although it had collected even more mud to add to what was on it already. The snow that had been on the roof of the bus, for the last thousand-odd miles, had suddenly melted.
.....the view from seat 28.
The interstate passenger service between Adelaide and Melbourne 'The Overland' has now only three return trips left before the government subsidy it enjoys runs out
So I went for a nostalgic journey today from Melbourne to Adelaide, just for fun. A couple of weeks ago the train was sold out, but with numerous cancellations due to the virus thingy, around 50% of intending passengers had cancelled.
UPDATE: As it turns out this was probably the last run of Australia's oldest interstate through passenger service - due to government virus restrictions, despite three more return trips planned, as of Sunday 22/3 the train was mothballed and is unlikely to return.
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The freshly repainted UP 3853 rolls west past the "Great Overland Station" in Topeka, KS past an unusual visitor. The RPCX 4110, an Illinois Central (painted, at least) diner was eight cars deep on an eastbound manifest (NPKC) that was working the yard at the time.
The 3853 was headed for Herington on the Golden State, while the diner was dropped off and blocked to Block 222 (Norfolk Southern) in Kansas City. I've seen on RRPA that this car had been in Commerce, CA and is headed to the Monticello Railway Museum in IL to join their collection of IC equipment. Good to see it heading to a good home!