Crawlin' the Hume 2014 - April 12-13

Have a look at the lad in the passenger seat of the blue loadstar, He's having the time of his life!

Great photos!

Thanx to all the organisers for a great event.Also to the guys for putting up the footage and photos.
Lyn

Steve has his 11th up: more of leaving Winton, including a good one of the Flxible Clipper, and much denser packing than leaving Campbellfield. He got more toots than I did, but perhaps he was giving the teenage sign, which I wasn't doing.
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While the enthusiasm is still up, I have to keep pushing. I am not being selective: everyone deserves recognition for their effort; only one failure is so hopeless that it won't appear; the others I shrink. Even the oddball of three non-rallying locals gets in: they are all trucks which people know. This selection includes one from Queensland. The sixth belongs with the next group, so I have brought a special crop forwards instead: a man and his dog (kelpie?), nearly the equal of a dad with his lad . 'The dog sits on the six-speed box, on the road to, Gundagai'. Rallies bring out the best spirit in any hobby.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria





Possibly three local, and not rally:


A Queensland entrant:




A man and his dog. Not quite up with Mallee farmers having a monkey drive the tractor while throwing out the hay, but just wait 2 years.

Rodders when referring to the Transtar do you mean the old bloke and his grandson
Reckon the grandson could back it to a loading bay already

Ah yes, in that light I couldn't tell father-son from grandfather-grandson, and far more likely young teenage than 11. Fully agreed, we were all teenagers once, and all chances to act older were grabbed: usually more from relatives/friends than father. Centuries ago, a tribe elder would show a youngster how to kill an edible animal with a spear. Today it is technology, but the same ritual. My father's cousin was a Rolls-Royce owner, and took me to meetings and rallies. My father let me back the caravan into tight spots. The group has a 16 yo restorer from Stawell: was he there with an adult doing the legal bits?
My next section is tomorrow morning, not tonight. 12 per day has to suffice.

A post edit: Steve has episode 12 showing.
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It covers more of the departure from Winton. As I viewed, I was reminded of the parallels with my railway hobby.
* Retired equipment: 'We might be retired, but this is what we were built to do, and we can still do it'.
* Others: 'We weren't built for this, but we can do it, and we are doing it'.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

It was indeed a great event, and a credit to the organisers and their band of helpers.
A big thanks also go out to all the photo and video takers (seemed to be hundreds) along the route.
I personally chalked up about 750 miles(1200 Ks) for the weekend, and it makes you appreciate how good we`ve got it these days.
Rags

Thanks heaps for your fantastic input and commentary Rodders....it's very much appreciated by us all


.....innit great how you can only REALLY hear the GM's....

Don`t know about that Detective, watched a video of Crackers 903 and it works for Me
Rags

Rod has been posting links to my videos from the day, hope you all enjoyed them. I have been asked by someone on another site about getting a copy on DVD of the stuff from YouTube.

If enough people were interested in paying around $15 a copy + postage, I'm prepared to edit all the footage up and post them out to people. The only question is, would you prefer a standard DVD ( with quality loss ), or MP4 files that retain the original High Def ?

There will be one final video in the series, which will probably be available to view in the morning.

Steve

....'scuse me Raggsie .. dead right about that!!...i'll try to sit on the fence and have a better listen