Railway Repair Machinery Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By
Cybergran V on 17-Dec-19. Waypoint GA14215
Cache Details
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| Type: | Locationless |
| Container: | Other |
| Proximity: | 161m |
Description
Take a photograph of Railway repair machinery in action, on a railway line.
At the moment there is a lot of action in Victoria of repairing railway lines, especially replacing sleepers.
Here is your opportunity to take a photo of this type of big equipment at work on a railway line, and post the coordinates.
it is great to see our railway lines being repaired but wish that the rolling stock would be updated also, our trains are decrepit in comparison with modern streamlined ones seen overseas.
Congratulations to Graham Cookie on FTF with a wonderful log. What an interesting experience the whole journey must have been.
Hints
Lbh zvtug arrq na E va Qrprzore, be Wnahnel, be 2 va Sroehnel |
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Logs
Great Cache,
Found this cache while on the Wild Coast Railway while on my Tassie Trip which was for Apple Isle Moot,
I was unable to grab great coordinates at the time as we were moving too quickly.
Jameso116
Found this cache while on the Wild Coast Railway while on my Tassie Trip which was for Apple Isle Moot,
I was unable to grab great coordinates at the time as we were moving too quickly.
Jameso116
Hi Cybergran
Was on my way to the Tiers when I noticed this crew working on the railway outside Campania
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Was on my way to the Tiers when I noticed this crew working on the railway outside Campania
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Rated: for Overall Experience
Spotted this one hard at work in Hoppers Crossing Vic.
Just laying a little blustone under the sleepers.
Rail rolls on!
TFTL
Just laying a little blustone under the sleepers.
Rail rolls on!
TFTL
Rated: for Overall Experience
Heading home from Melbourne and notice this railway maintenance van working on the track just outside of Wodonga. Stopped close to where it was working and grabbed the required photo's.
Thanks for another one Cybergran V...
Thanks for another one Cybergran V...
Rated: for Overall Experience
This vehicle that looks like a truck running on the tracks to check the weight the tracks can take or so I have been told.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Railway maintenance vehicles near the former Dunmore Station south of Wollongong.
Typical machinery seen across the rail network in all states. Yellow is a popular colour.
Thanks for the locationless.
Typical machinery seen across the rail network in all states. Yellow is a popular colour.
Thanks for the locationless.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I'm taking an example from a visit to Thailand just before Christmas 2015, when I had volunteered to teach the subject of Geocaching to a few groups of youths and their leaders at the equivalent of a Jamboree.
It is 'Back to Basics' in Thailand, when it comes to Railway Maintenance. The local workers were pushing wheelbarrows of ballast from the dumped pile to where it was to be spread. But when they were returning with the empty barrows 'you' could easily see right through the base of the barrow, or at least see some of it covered by plywood or a sheet of tin!
The following is from my Waymark - WMYRRQ, as in: https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wmYRRQ_Railway_Maintenance_Muak_Lek_Thailand
[THIS is the 'sister' site to Geocaching.com where your geocaching name and Password get you in, to explore a different virtual world to the Virtuals of Geocaching, where the proof is in the photograph - though a narrative is great!]
"Muak Lek is on the Bangkok to Nong Khai rail line, with Saraburi, and Ayutthaya between here and Bangkok. (I was on my way to Saraburi). When I saw the total manual labour of the Railway Maintenance crew I thought I would try to get a photo. I was really trying to get an 'inside' photo of the wheelbarrows that were being used to deliver the ballast, but the Thai workers were a bit skittish about having the 'tray' of the wheelbarrow being photographed.
"There was a real reason to be worried, I guess, as the base of one had a sheet of 5-ply on the bottom, and another barrow had a sheet of tin lying loose in the bottom. The only motorised piece of machinery was the lorry that had brought the load of basalt ballast. They allowed a more distant photo to be taken, which didn't show the condition of the barrow. [BTW, trains only run about every hour here.]"
I had borrowed a pushbike from the University I was staying at, to cycle into the rural town of Muak Lek, with the intent to go to the next closest place, that had any Waymarks and Geocaches - though in the end I was unfortunately unable to find any of the Geocaches. Visited: 1041, Tuesday, 8 December, 2015
It is 'Back to Basics' in Thailand, when it comes to Railway Maintenance. The local workers were pushing wheelbarrows of ballast from the dumped pile to where it was to be spread. But when they were returning with the empty barrows 'you' could easily see right through the base of the barrow, or at least see some of it covered by plywood or a sheet of tin!
The following is from my Waymark - WMYRRQ, as in: https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wmYRRQ_Railway_Maintenance_Muak_Lek_Thailand
[THIS is the 'sister' site to Geocaching.com where your geocaching name and Password get you in, to explore a different virtual world to the Virtuals of Geocaching, where the proof is in the photograph - though a narrative is great!]
"Muak Lek is on the Bangkok to Nong Khai rail line, with Saraburi, and Ayutthaya between here and Bangkok. (I was on my way to Saraburi). When I saw the total manual labour of the Railway Maintenance crew I thought I would try to get a photo. I was really trying to get an 'inside' photo of the wheelbarrows that were being used to deliver the ballast, but the Thai workers were a bit skittish about having the 'tray' of the wheelbarrow being photographed.
"There was a real reason to be worried, I guess, as the base of one had a sheet of 5-ply on the bottom, and another barrow had a sheet of tin lying loose in the bottom. The only motorised piece of machinery was the lorry that had brought the load of basalt ballast. They allowed a more distant photo to be taken, which didn't show the condition of the barrow. [BTW, trains only run about every hour here.]"
I had borrowed a pushbike from the University I was staying at, to cycle into the rural town of Muak Lek, with the intent to go to the next closest place, that had any Waymarks and Geocaches - though in the end I was unfortunately unable to find any of the Geocaches. Visited: 1041, Tuesday, 8 December, 2015
Rated: for Overall Experience
Having spotted these two huge machines at a railway crossing in Benalla, whilst on our way to a GC FTF, I started noticing similar machines at work in the district, and thought it would make a good locationless cache, so get busy with those cameras.
