Steam Train that has seen better days.

A few shots taken today of a steam train that is a static display at the Coal Creek Historical Park in Korumburra, Victoria.

Coal Creek is the site of the first significant coal mine in Victoria.

Nice shots of this old train. The reason they stopped using the steam engines was the phenominal amount of upkeep they need to keep running. They could run at most, an hour before they needed oiling and water and some kind of major maintenance every trip. I'm surprised they used them as long as they did. I suppose this one will rust away from lack of interest now.

Nice captures. Bet the train would look nice restored.

Thanks.

It really is a shame it's no longer in use and being cared for.

Tough to see these old beasts rusting away. A restoration, even cosmetic and a covered shed would be a much nicer treatment for this. Nice find. Did you get any additional angles?

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Tough to see these old beasts rusting away. A restoration, even cosmetic and a covered shed would be a much nicer treatment for this. Nice find. Did you get any additional angles?

Agreed.

Sadly decent angles were limited as the other side had ugly wire fencing stopping people climbing aboard from the platform (long gone are the days of kids climbing all over these sorts of displays, thanks to the fear of people suing). The front was blocked by poles.

This was the only other shot I got by twisting and contorting over and around barriers. I was also cursing not taking my lens hood with me.

Shame that they have to resort to fences and poles and posts....but you are right, everyone has gone sue happy and they have to take precautions. Sure does make it tough for us though.

AT least there are quite a few K class running in historical rail societies in Victoria. It does always sadden me to see them rusting away.

Canon loader, I don't know about your steam locos over there but the NSW 60 class (Beyer-Garrett articulated locos) certainly do much longer trips than that without maintenance, they are self loading coal too, no shovelling required.

hope you don't mind have applied a touch of sepia toning to the shot ,on the net you can down load phototools to plug in photoshop for free with loads of black and white applications to age and touch up shots

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Hi Odille. This old Locomotive is behind a fence at one of our local parks. A few weeks after taking these, I was able to get inside the fence and actually got a guided tour of the engine and was told more about it than I ever wanted to know.

This particular engine was on the Chicago to San Francisco run along with several other engines. It was built in 1930. Since this is close to a 2000 mile run, one way, it required maintenance after every round trip run. This engine was typically run at 100 miles per hour for most of the trip. It could barely make over 100 miles before needing water and the tender carried 15,000 gallons and 40,000 pounds of coal. I was shocked, but that's what the guy told me. After a trip, if it made it the whole trip, it would need various bearings replaced and a complete checkout. They did not last long. Can you imagine the courage it took to run one of these man killers at over 100 miles per hour? The noise and vibration and squealing were horrendous.

Looks good Kingsown.

Yeah I had wondered if giving it the sepia treatment would be worthwhile. I had already done that with some building/streetscape pics I took of the historical park and they look pretty good.

I really like #3