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Thanks @Slick I best put my glasses on.

Thanks @OceanGirl could you tell me when this was please?

Thanks for the tip I will keep it in mind.

It is a pity you have not jumped on others who have spoke the same way to me in the past djrappa.

@reanimated35 well I did disagree with him and red dragon is still wrong with the information he has posted.

@red dragin The wheels you are referring to have been machined and returned waiting to be reinstalled, you may want to get your facts right before posting misleading information.

Maybe it has been some time since you have been and had a look behind the train shed at Dreamworld and from my visits to Woodford I have only ever seen the one freight wagon stored up the back.

@The Sunlander I have to correct your mistake, one of the freight cars was not donated to Woodford 8 years ago, two have been scraped and the only one left is the one that went with the Perry.

That feature was removed due to it causing maintenance issues with that side.

It was a feature of the ride, many people thought the operators did some for this to happen but that was never the case.

Did not get to go but Dreamworld gave it a good write up on there Facbook page with a great photo.

@The Sunlander, I disagree with you, I have heard and seen whistles make different sounds altogether over prolonged use. @Wil_i_am_not here is a video of the chime whistle that The Sunlander spoke of, watch right to the end.

@Wil_i_am_not Over the years the tone may have changed due to wear, the type that was used is an organ whistle which is commercially available through Blackwoods. It is however possible that different whistles may have been tried over the years, personally I think a chime whistle (three or five notes or tones together) sound better than just a single note.

@AlexB I can see what you are trying to get at but the differences you speak of are only small, the things that can affect the performance of a steam loco is bad water, bad coal or in Dreamworlds case bad diesel, the fire tubes could be clogged reducing the heat transfer, a loco like the Baldwin should be brought up to steam with in 4 hours from cold (ambient temperature), if it is warm from the previous days running then hour and half is more than ample.

joz, the principal is the same but on a larger scale obviously.

Alex B, what you are saying is that car technoligy has changed to allow quicker start up times compaired to old cars, however steam loco technoligy has not changed much in the last 100 years. Just think of your kettle at home the more water you have in it the longer it takes to boil the water and if you have a small amount of water the less time it takes, when lighting up a steam loco the same applies, so your your suggestion that the Baldwin takes longer now to get steam up to day than it did 100 years ago is not correct.

For those intertested a little more info on the Fowler that has been mentioned by The Sunlander in recent posts. http://www.lrrsa.org.au/LR234_p32-33.pdf

To answer your question Slick yes there is, other railways around the world are running steam locos on recycled oil and I know of people who have run there diesel cars and trucks on old chip oil from takeaways, one could think that DW has this stuff in abundance which they give away to a mob to turns it in to something, so why not use some of that.

It still take the same amount of time to get the steam engine going as it has done over the years, the wording of talking longer as it is get older is just spin and nonsense.