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DD17 N°1049 steams towards Vulture Street with 156Up bound for Lota on 6th March 1968. The City Hall clock tower can be seen in the distance.
Ipswich Nth Yard 1088, 580 & 1000 – 26.2.69 Ipswich North Yard was a hive of activity on 26th February 1969. Three fettlers work beside their hand trolley while beside them the fireman on BB18¼ N° 1088 raises steam in readiness for departure. A shunter holds the points for PB15 N° 580 to continue with its work and C17 N° 1000 prepares to shunt the coal stage. At the left is an unidentified Beyer Garratt on the last leg of its final journey to Ipswich Workshops. The road in the foreground leads to the Workshops and Loco Depot and the coal stage ramp can be seen in the distance.
RM Stop 15, 996 361Dn – 6.9.69 The late afternoon sun glints off C17 N° 996 as she hurries 361Dn goods past RM Stop15 on 6th September 1969. This site, in the Clarendon and Lowood section, was one of numerous numbered locations between stations on branch lines where rail motors would stop to pick up or set down passengers.
With the impressive Glen Rock in the background, C17 N°955 climbs away from Esk with a short 361Dn in 1969
Esk C17 N° 802 361 Down 12.10.68 C17 N° 802 stands at Esk with 361Down goods on 12th October 1968. The Goods Shed and 3 ton capacity crane are in the distance with a solitary F wagon awaiting its next load.
Haydn - Die Jahreszeiten The seasons - Heather Harper, Ryland Davies, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC SO & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis, Philips Universo 6580 015
Books on Beechwood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
See more photos from the Quirk Classics contest on the Raincoast blog.
C17 N°939 K2 Mixed Kingaroy 6.7.68 K2 Mixed has just arrived at its destination after an overnight trip from Gympie. The train stands foul of the level crossing as the carriage has been positioned at the platform for passengers to alight
C17 Nº 974 and DD17 Nº 1046 climb towards Yarongmulu with an excursion train on a wet afternoon in January 1970.
Albert was a crossing loop between Dutton Park and Wooloongabba. On 22 September 1967, PB15 N°340 waits for the arrival of 134Up Beaudesert Goods.
Mackay PB15 N° 12 10.9.67 PB15 N° 12 stands in Mackay Loco yard on Sunday 12th August 1967. This locomotive was unique as it was the only member of its class to be constructed at Ipswich Workshops and the only engine QGR ever built for a third party. The engine was produced for the Aramac Shire Council for use on its 42 mile line linking Aramac with the Central Railway at Barcaldine. Erected in 1924, it was similar to the batch of engines manufactured by Toowoomba Foundry in 1912 although a new design for the class was currently on the drawing board. The engine worked on the tramway until it was withdrawn from service on 16th January 1958 following the delivery of a diesel mechanical locomotive. The Council then offered it back to QR. The offer was initially accepted on a hire basis in February 1958 and the engine was ultimately purchased on 7th June 1958. Number 1052 was originally allotted but this was changed to N°12 at the time of purchase. No number plates were fitted in QR service but the number was painted on the boiler cladding in the usual position for such plates. She was the last steam locomotive purchased by QR. and was finally written off on 26th March 1970
Clapham 5035 -10.69 D50 N° 5035 shunts at the Rocklea end of Clapham yard in October 1969. The Standard Goods engines based at Yeerongpilly outlasted QR steam in the Brisbane metropolitan area.
The late Andrew Quirk is passionately directing Edgar Lee Master's 1915 "Spoon River Anthology," a collection of free form poems that describe the fictional town of Spoon River.
"How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?"
"Immortality is not a gift, immortality is an achievement. And only those who strive mightily shall possess it."
"To put meaning into one's life may end in madness. But life without meaning is tbe torture of restlessness and vague desire - It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid."... Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
Masters published 12 plays, 21 books of poetry, six novels and six biographies.
@2009 David Lee Guss Andrew Quirk directing "Spoon River Anthology," Arizona Civic Theater, Rendezvous Room, Santa Rita Hotel, Tucson, Arizona, 1970-2009
Wooloongabba Main Street B18¼ N°900 & PB15 N°576 – 2.9.67 B18¼ N°900 leads PB15 N°576 across Main Street with the combined loads of trains 15Down and 35Down at dusk on Saturday 2nd September 1967. The procession is lead by the train guard as the flagman had ceased duty. Both engines had come off early morning passenger trains to work their respective trains around the southside and as far a field as Redbank. If the trains were running in close proximity at the end of the day, it was common practice to combine the loads for the final leg of the journey and so reduce the number of movements over the busy level crossings.