#Cudgewa Line

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

Traintober Day 2: Bridge

No art... just personal universe lore.

This up here is a photo of a VR K-Class Consolidation engine up on the Cudgewa Line in Victoria's High Country.

The line had steep 1-30 grades and was frequently haunted by the amiable, light-footed and reliable K classes that this became known as "K-Class Country".

Among the locos of the VR, the K-class generally became known as the "Cudgewa Mob", "Cudgewa Boys/Girls" or simply "Cudgies", regardless if any one particular K-class loco went to Cudgewa.

The Cudgewa Line served to transport goods and materials for the creation of Hume Dam and then the Snowy River Hydroelctrification Scheme. It stopped carrying passengers in the 60s and then goods during the 80s.

The Cudgewa Line now is the High Country Rail Trail.

[airmanisr]

Rolling Skies by Joshua_Watson Via Flickr: 707 Operations' T413 stabled in the turntable road of Newport Workshops, prior to the second day of the 2018 Open Days. T413 was built in 1955 for use by the Portland Cement company in Fyansford being numbered as 'D1'. After 12 years of use in Fyansford, T413 was then purchased by the Victorian Railways in 1967. This locomotive had been allocated mainly to workings on the Cudgewa Line, with the dynamic braking system coming in very good use for the low speed line and gradients up to 1 in 30 and 40. In 2003, the locomotive was purchased by 707 Operations, and now runs heritage tours around Victoria. Newport Workshops, Victoria. 11/3/18

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

Red And Black Steam On Southern Metals (Victorian Railways RWS AU/EU)

The Island Of Sodor isn’t the only place with non-faceless vehicles.

On the other side of the world, on a railway network the size of Great Britain and every Victorian human is no more then 25 kms away from a railway line; the steam locomotives of the Victorian Railways live and work.

They breathe and suffer and love like humans; from Newport Works where many locomotives were built, to the notorious soot-caked North Melbourne Loco Depot and the 1-30 slopes of the high country at Cudgewa, known as ‘K-class Country’, and the ever stylish Spirit of Progress and The Overland; when the Oz version of the Beeching Axe and Lokodammerung strike their Broad Gauge fiefdom, their world is upended forever.

And the survivors must carry on as best they can.

This is an Extended/Alternative Universe existing parallel with the Island of Sodor and overlapping with This is Sodor: Iron Age, though the sweep of time is longer. It will feature humanisation.

The 'Red and Black' of the title refers to two common liveries, black for goods work, red for passenger work during the active days of the VR (with plenty of variation such as the blue and gold "Spirit of Progress" livery of the S-class Pacifics).

It will feature OCs of mine based on real life locomotives like VR Pocono H220 ‘Heavy Harry��, Hudson R707 ‘City Of Melbourne’ (but here called ‘Cerberus’), A2 4-6-0 No 986 (in this universe, ‘Pluto’) and others. And there will be some reference to real life personages.

These are fictional representations of locos and humans and no comment is to be inferred from them, or offense intended in their depiction.

There will be very heavy coarse language (like I said in my intro, the word ‘cunt’ being used will be the least of it) and adult themes, and be written in the Australian vernacular.

A lot of it will jump time as the mood takes me. They will be dated if possible.