Re: Echuca 7th & 8th September 2013

Swishy M8
Just for you I will bring the wire cable splicing gear
I figure in your game you would know how to do it better than anyone else

Next we will be doing Dogs and Chain training
Have got a couple of old Logging dogs about 3ft long floating around in the workshop somewhere

Cheers

Slasha

Slasha's wire splicing tool box .1 gloves 2pliers.3vice. 4bandaids. 5 swearbox

I can still splice with hemp/sisal, but never with wire.
I still get to backsplice and eyesplice: mooring lines.

Echuca will be busy over 8-10.6, but I will be elsewhere with a treble clash.
Steamrail is running a long-weekend tour with early 1950s mainline 4-6-4 steam loco R761, assisted by early 1960s mainline diesel S313. It spends Saturday in Swan Hill, then is in Echuca from 6.15 Sun to 9.40 Mon.
The paddlesteamers are running an expanded program: some for the public, and some charter.

This will be a go go go hectic weekend.

Years ago, I ran a special steam train from Melbourne for the event, just for the day. My father brought my 11 & 12 yo brothers for the ride. With minutes to go before departure for Melbourne, my father rushed up :'I've lost your brothers; I'm going back'. With 1 minute to go, my brothers arrived: 'We've lost dad, but we've made sure that we are here on time'. We couldn't afford to lose our path to Melbourne, and I allowed the guard to flag the train out on time. With no accommodation available in Echuca on this long weekend, my father spent his night under a hessian bag in a van at the railway station, woke up early to have a cup of tea with the stationmaster, and rode the morning train into Melbourne.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

If I remember I will try and bring the truck or the xp ute in and have a look. We might able to combine them all to reproduce a photo from a bygone era. I will be at the Steam Rally in Echuca on Saturday and Sunday.

It looks like we are running 2 threads inside one ..... one being the steam rally and the other being the sept truck show

The Clarendon Classic is on the week after Echuca.Good chance for a run from Echuca to Richmond during the week between....Only problem is voting. At least a chance for a good run for anyone ???

deadly u go to the steam rally.

Steveb
I would say for wire splicing 4 Band-Aids wouldn't be enough :'( might need a red cross car there for the transfusion.

Cheers
Slasha

Slasha

How many days to go, run up is slowly getting co ordinated.

Trevor

G'day Sloospeed
After having checked twice, I put the count at
74 SLEEPS

Slasha