Fire appliances

This one isn't at a display, and isn't modern, and isn't under restoration. It is a CFA Austin performing a slightly unusual duty in its annual roster, but a common one in the railway hobby.

It is helping to top up the tender of 4-6-0 steam loco D3.639, hauling a trainload of railway enthusiasts to & from Katamatite. In an era when traditional railway facilities had been removed, we relied a lot on fire facilities for watering, and on superphosphate contractors with grab scoops to help with recoaling.

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Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

did it have trouble putting the fire out??

I was at a youth camp, and said to one of the young ones: 'Please put this billy of water on the fire'.
You can guess the rest.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

did it have trouble putting the fire out??

Yeah, someone kept shoveling more coal into it.

Steam heat (Pajama game):

'They told me to shovel more coal in the boiler'
'They told be to put some more oil in the burner'

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

I scanned this one from a half-frame slide, then discovered that it isn't a fire appliance. However, since it is 40 years ago, even a Dodge which I think of as modern is now quite old. The eqivalent then would have been photographing a 1931 truck (older than the one which has caused so much discussion in the quiz section). It is also of interest in being Ampol, a now-fallen flag. I am also posting it to flickr group Great Aussie Petrol Station, where it could well score an invitation to be added to flickr group Anything Ampol.

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The occasion was a weekend tour to Robinvale. J550 was in its last few months of service, at Bendigo. It would be the last steam loco in use on VR (other than workshops shunters, and those preserved to run heritage trains). We had a flurry of six tours using it. It was an oil burner, designed for a heavy grade of oil Nevertheless, it would run quite happily on domestic heating oil, which was available readily at remote locations.


Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Replaced with a fresh post, working around Telstra closing the account to which the link went.
1936 Ford fire truck now at: www.hcvc.com.au/forum/truck_Chat/6448-fi...nces?start=10#200096

Roderick

I'm not sayin' a thing !.......

It says 1936 Ford. 1937 changed radiator shape considerably.

this post is a little confusing to me? but the fire truck with the chrome grill and hood is a 1936 - 35 grill was thinner and tillted back -37 more rounded with a devider bar down the center