Back to base...
The motto the place is run by
A drop of the good oil to get the steamer going to drive the 1900-something generator to drive the string of 1930 incandescent bulbs.
And ALL in MINT!!, working condition!
Steam-winch
Very bike-friendly folks, on top of everything else : "park in the shade, guys!"
Jim oogling the new boiler for the Tripod
THIS...is a WORKSHOP!! Well, part of it, anyway.
A ONE-MAN workshop!!
And yes, in the centre is the chassis for the new steam-loco, all hand-built!
It's near impossible to leave this elevated paradise overlooking the Goulburn Valley Flats, but there's a lunch at Yea waiting, then a try of a reverse route of some tracks ridden the other way around some time ago.
The No-Through gets us into the top end of the Toolangi State Park and it's soon obvious that this is the end of summer and the tracks are bombed out and rocky, rough and rutted. Easy enough to make it through, but not too much fun.
A dogleg to nip down the bloody slippery, fine-gravelled Toolangi-Dixons Crk. Rd., another dogleg past De Bortoli's for the quieter roads of Steels Creek and into the back of Yarra Glen where our ways part...after a certain Tenere copped a double-slap and insisted on taking a nap...twice in the same spot
Kerrisdale ....we'll be back to this, no question!!
You just gotta love a place where even the cash-register is "steam-driven" and doesn't know what Eftpos is.
$15 per head... CASH ONLY! ( kids-prices and more info on the website)
http://www.kerrisdalemtnrailway.com.au/
And thanks to Jim, Brendan and Goodie for a fantastic day out, riding and otherwise.