Echuca (Australia), QEII jubilee rally

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's....... .....Bernie...one of the brillant things with our PD protocol is that each & every member can go back & correct their own TYPOS or the like with no time limit

This is unlike other sites where after ~~~~~30 minutes your comments are set in concrete

I have questioned this on Model Mayhem & the explanation was long winded & suggested inappropriate actions or the like by some members a number of years ago

In 10 years on PD's ....to my knowledge we have never had a reported case of any such inappropriate actions or changes etc......

"Tug Kenny"....is a moderator on Mayhem and also a long time member of PD's....he may have a comment on this subject......

Derek 

 

[Spankbucket]

Once a libel (or is it slander?) always a libel...even if you were able to go back and change it...LOL (Laugh NOT Cameronian Love).

[Roderick Smith]

The good news keeps spreading.
It is now on youtube, and the movement and sound (and spectator admiration) give
extra dimensions.  One of those whistles is a railway one, and maintains its note & tone even on riverboat steam pressure, much lower than railway boiler pressure.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbDAbbYyv48&feature=youtube_gdata_player>
If you are a youtube member (I am not), please place a favourable vote, thanking
the anonymous poster.

Perhaps the 5 h Thames rally will appear on youtube yet, with a photographer who could brave the rain, and provide a more-comprehensive coverage than BBC did?  It will have to be doctored into episodes to match youtube filesize rules.
There must have been paddleboats there, even if PS Waverley couldn't justify the positioning voyage.

The related Echuca event, the annual steam rally, has been covered at
<http://www.hcvc.com.au/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1339069821>.
Reply 8 shows steam launch 'Marion Rose' which was there, but not in the pageant.

If I had had Jessie II on the water, I had hoped to have two friends aboard (one playing trombone; the other playing clarinet).  They were had the steam rally, but had to be back in Melbourne by Sunday night.  This would have been my contibution to pageantry, and not out of character: the previous owner was a jazz musician, and often had quartets playing in the rear saloon, with a keyboard powered by an inverter from the solar-powered marine batteries.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[AlistairD]

Roderick asked if the Thames rally had any paddle steamers. You may see a vessel with wheels named YARMOUTH BELLER in the BBC coverage. This is a screw motor vessel with very thin dummy side wheels which barely skim the water
She normally operates from Kingston
http://www.turks.co.uk/our-fleet/yarmouth-belle

[Tug--Kenny]

Hi PD's....... .....Bernie...one of the brillant things with our PD protocol is that each & every member can go back & correct their own TYPOS or the like with no time limit

This is unlike other sites where after ~~~~~30 minutes your comments are set in concrete

I have questioned this on Model Mayhem & the explanation was long winded & suggested inappropriate actions or the like by some members a number of years ago

In 10 years on PD's ....to my knowledge we have never had a reported case of any such inappropriate actions or changes etc......

"Tug Kenny"....is a moderator on Mayhem and also a long time member of PD's....he may have a comment on this subject......

Derek 

Hi there,

I am not in a position to comment on the "whys  etc,"  as I only moderate on Mayhem.

The difference is that mayhem has a time limit of only 30 minutes and then it's locked. It can be altered on request to the Mods, so not really much trouble.

Regards

ken

[Roderick Smith]

A friend who could be in Echuca only for Sat. & Sun. put up his paddlesteamer video on Youtube.  It covers:
* PS Canberra on an evening cruise on Sat., taken from the shore, with evocative sound and just enough reflected light to show the paddles at work.
* A cruise on PS Pevensey on Sunday, with particular attention to the boiler and the motion gear.
He is a trainee fireman on steam locomotives, and was in Echuca principally for the steam rally.  His other two videos cover different aspects of the weekend, not paddlesteamers, but will add to the pageant coverage to give all members from remote countries the feeling of having been with us for the weekend, at a saving of AUD2000.
* Paddlesteamers Canberra and Pevensey: http://youtu.be/SBKv1SL5eV0
* Steam Rally (mostly from the grand parade-almost exclusively steam): http://youtu.be/2Xx5ceVc3T4
* The miniature railways at Echuca and Elmore: http://youtu.be/izaWPEtpoRs
Those miniature railways conform to world engineering standards (there are three main gauges), and there are many such club layouts around Australia.
Somewhere I hold a photo which Michael took when I was riding the Echuca one at an earlier Queen's Birthday rally.  That was also the rally where I took a photo of massed vintage lawnmowers: something different, but still engineering, with equipment maintained by people with precision skills and lots of enthusiasm.  That is what binds together all of the technical hobbies, and why rallies are such great events: people and equipment come together.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[michael]

Attached a few photo's from friends, of Struggler and sailpast!