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NR91 charges uphill out of Maroona with the Overland heading for Melbourne, seen here about to pass by Tatyoon loop
On a recent trip north I saw a couple of Wedge Tail Eagles around 70kms North of Port Augusta. After heading into the scrub to capture them, I was amazed to find piles of old tins, wire & rubbish laying about the shrubs & sand of the Arid Lands . I also noticed what can only be discribed as tree branches lined up for miles at 20 or 30m intervals. I finally made the correlation when I noticed that most of these posts had wire & or metal brackets on them. I'm assuming that this is the original Overland Telegraph Line that ran from Adelaide to Darwin. Erected in 1872, running a single Telegraph Line between the two capitals, if my vague memories from school are correct, this line did run through the Flinders Ranges.
A little more research tells me that the single strand line spanned 3,178kms.
Now that I've gone to this trouble to explain my find & shot, I'm certain someone will inform me that I was nowhere near the Overland Telegraph Line!
Portrait of moi taken by (Jt). You can visit his photostream here: www.flickr.com/photos/44290369@N08/
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Overland Park, Kansas Fire Department's New Engine 43
Picture ID# 7590, 7591, 7592
HDR - High Dynamic Range
I really love this picture, although I'm not exactly sure why. I guess I just think it looks cool. Side shot from our Land Rover while driving the Laki Loop (F207) in Iceland.
The Township. Intrepid explorers Hamilton Hume and Captain Lovell and party camped here on the banks of the mighty Murrumbidgee River in 1824. Just a couple of years later the first pastoralists took up land here and the spot became known as The Crossing. As The Crossing was on the road from Sydney to Port Phillip Bay District a tiny village emerged in the mid-1830s with the government laying out a town on the flood plains in 1838 despite warnings from the local Aboriginal people. Charles Sturt and Edward John Eyre passed through here on their overland (not river voyages) trips to Adelaide around 1839. By 1843 the town had four hotels, a Post Office, several stores and a tiny school. The first Courthouse was erected in 1847. During the winter of 1852, after days of rain, the town was flooded. It was one of the worse natural disasters to ever hit Australia. 83 people were drown, 71 buildings were destroyed and more people would have been lost but for help from the local Aborigines, especially a man called Yarri. He rescued a total of 49 people in his traditional bark canoe when others failed to navigate the raging torrents to safety. Yarri was buried in the Gundagai cemetery in 1880. A sculpture to honour Yarri and the Wiradjuri people was erected in 2017. A new town above the flood plains was immediately rebuilt after the great flood. In 1853 Captain Cadell of Goolwa reached the town in his paddle steamer. Any town on a major river needs a bridge and the first bridge to cross the Murrumbidgee River was the Prince Alfred Bridge completed in 1866. It closed to traffic in 1976 and is one of four bridges across the Murrumbidgee in Gundagai. This fine old wooden bridge is now in disrepair and closed even to walkers. The second bridge was the wooden rail viaduct which is over 800 metres long. The railway reached Gundagai from Cootamundra in 1886 when the quaint wooden railway station was built. In 1899 work began on extending the railway line from Gundagai to Tumut which necessitated a railway viaduct over the Murrumbidgee and the river flats. This opened in 1902. The railway line closed in 1984 and the railway viaduct at Gundagai has not been used since. To the west of the two wooden bridges are the two bridges for the Hume Highway. These are the Sheahan bridges with the latest one only built a few years ago when the Hume Highway was duplicated here.
In Sheridan Street (the early streets were named after European literary figures –Pope, Byron, Ovid, Virgil etc,) you can see the Gabriel Gallery for free upstairs in the Mitre 10 opposite the Criterion Hotel. Nearby is the Niagara Café which once provided a midnight meal for Australian Prime Minister John Curtin in 1942 along with two other politicians who later became Prime Ministers of Australia – Arthur Fadden and Ben Chifley. Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam visited the café in 2001. Next is the Catholic Church (1885). The architect was E.C Manfred who also designed the Tumut Catholic church, Goulburn Cathedral etc. It has a set of 8 German stained glass windows. Further along Sheridan Street are the floodplain bridges and the town Cenotaph designed by marble sculptor Frank Rusconi. His cottage home is on the corner of Araluen Street where he worked on his marble masterpiece. This masterpiece was created from 1910 to 1938 using around 21,000 pieces of NSW marble of different colours and from 20 different quarries. It is truly remarkable. Rusconi was born in NSW but learnt marble carving in Europe. His notable works include Ryan family headstones in Galong cemetery, a marble stairway in Westminster Cathedral, the altar of the Tumut Catholic Church, the Gundagai Cenotaph (1928), the bronze of the Dog on the Tucker Box( 1932) etc.
Western Pacific Alco S2 560 at Sacramento, California, May, 1974. Photographer unknown. Scanned from a 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 negative owned by Digital Rail Artist.
WP 560 was built in February, 1950, part of an order for four units, 559-562. It was retired on February 23, 1976, and sold to Stockton Terminal & Eastern 560. It was scrapped in 2008.
-- Joseph A. Strapac, Western Pacific's Diesel Years, Overland Models, 1980, pg 194.
The clouds changed every few seconds up here. We were very lucky to get a great view and photos before heavier/lower clouds settled in.
Turkey: October 1971
The Safaris Overland bus I was driving from India to London, seen here parked in the town of Agri, in north-eastern Turkey. The snow on the bus had come over a thousand miles from north-eastern Iran, not far from the Afghan frontier – however, it was to start melting the next day, once we'd got over the Tahir Pass.
Beyond doubt the star of the show at this Sarasota classic car event. In 1914, Overland was second only to Ford in overall US sales, pitching to a more upscale clientele. Acquired by Willys in 1908, the Overland name was phased out as a separate marque in 1926.
The first clear sunset we saw,was by this lake in Tanzania,on the way to the Serengeti. Please see my set Africa Overland for more information.
40 km from the Chinese border, Nepal: October 1975
One evening in Kathmandu, we were in the bar of one of the hotels when a local man asked if we'd be interested in taking some tourists, in one of the buses, for an early-morning trip to see a Himalayan sunrise. It turned out that there was a group of Europeans staying in Kathmandu that night only and he'd promised some of them a 'trip to remember', on the following day. Apparently, these people were on a Round-the-World-in-Seven-Days package deal – and, obviously the local man was a travel guide working on commission, and had done this before with tourists. Anyway, a time and price was agreed, on condition they paid, in cash, before we left at five o'clock the next morning. We were going to drive along the old road from Kathmandu up to the Chinese (Tibetan) border, there were several places on that road to witness the sunrise over the Himalayas.
At five o'clock sharp the next morning, the new passengers were waiting outside their hotel – all fifteen of them. A few seemed to be not fully awake yet, but they were there in body. The first few miles up the old dirt road was easy but gradually it deteriorated to not much more than a mountain track – it soon became clear why the large bus wouldn't have got far. We were climbing all the time, the road often running alongside the rapidly flowing Bhote Koshi River, which eventually joins the Ganges. This was the time of year following the monsoon season so there had been numerous landslide and rockfalls onto the road, sometimes we were able to get round them but there were occasions when we had to wait for an ancient bulldozer to clear a path through all the mud and rocks. When we got to the place our guide recommended for a sunrise viewpoint the cloud had come down and we didn't see the sun until a few hours later.
We continued up the road as far as we could go – that was the Friendship Bridge at Kodari. The bridge was the border crossing point from Nepal to Tibet, and it had been closed for many years, ever since the Chinese had invaded Tibet. We were forbidden from using cameras by Nepalese soldiers so I was unable to photograph the bridge – or all the Chinese soldiers on the other side of the Bhote Koshi River. I had originally co-driven this bus from Ostend to Istanbul, where the owner asked me to take over the larger, 45-seater bus for the remainder of the trip to India, and then Nepal.
Coopers of Kilamarsh Bought this lovely little thing to Alton Towers . R201WYD a Volvo B9M / Vanhool Alizee C38FT. Photo taken 14/07/23
The Dal Lake at Srinagar in Kashmir. Laying in the bow of the boat is Peter. In the shade of the canopy is Sylvia, Marie and Hillary.
A train that first ran 1887 as the Adelaide Express with wooden carriages has changed so much over the past 126 years. It ran on the broad gauge till the 1st of Marsh 1995 when the standard gauge took over and has stayed the same since.
Here the modern version of the Overland with upgraded steel carriages of the old Overland cars prepares to depart North Shore with 4AM8 on the final leg to Melbourne - 30/1/2013
Loco AN3 in red Ghan livery powers the Melbourne-bound Overland through Belair in the Adelaide Hills on the morning of 24 December 2005.
The use of an AN-class locomotive on this train was highly unusual, and was due to a major delay to the incoming train from Melbourne that day, causing a desperate rush at Keswick Terminal to assemble suitable rolling stock and motive power for the return Christmas Eve service.
AN3 operated only as far as Tailem Bend, where a more conventional NR-class loco was substituted.
The daily overnight Melbourne to Adelaide 'Overland' service (broad-gauge) - which I travelled on that night - awaits departure from Melbourne's Spencer Street station during August 1993. The service still continues today (on standard gauge), but is now a daylight run and only operates on two days per week.
The last rays of the setting summer sun glint off the side of NR93 and The Overland as they pass through Ambleside on Dec 29, 1997. This shot was taken soon after PacNat took over the GSR hook and pull contract with NR class locomotives.
Some of the passengers on the Safaris Overland trip to India, that left London in July 1971. In the front of the tonga are Hillary and Sylvia; in the rear are Marie and Alan — this was on a tour of Lahore, Pakistan.