The Puffing Billy
Australia - the Dandenong Hills - Melbourne
The "Puffing Billy" on the famous Monbulk Creek Trestle viaduct - Don't jump!
Note the telegraph pole, it's an old railway line.
Here is loco 8A on route from Belgrave to Selby and Menzies Creek
Note the extra balk of timber above the roadway, I think someone must have hit the bridge in the past.
14A at the end of the day
This impressive 2-6-2 loco, built in 1914 for the Victoria Railways narrow gauge network, was one or 17 such engines. The first two were built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in the U.S.A. in 1898 and the others at the Newport works in Victoria, Australia. Only six now remain, all on the Puffing Billy Railway, and these engines weigh in at well over 25 tons with a tractive effort of 12,515 lbs. (at 80% boiler pressure)
2000 saw the centenary of the Puffing Billy and above shows two NA's departing with a Mount Lyle coach sandwiched between the loco's, this coach needed to be taken to the carriage works for attention so they tacked it into the train set.
To find out more why not visit the Puffing Billy Web Site in Australia for timetables and much more info? Click here
Now visit the Moe Walhalla Railway, the other operating 2'6" gauge line in Victoria Visit
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Updated 9th November 2001