It is last drinks for the oft-forgotten and unloved K Sets, the last of Sydney’s old silver trains to be retired. Tonight, these trains finish up. Here’s a photo from December 2021.Jun 15 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #2021
Also a notable mention to the Central Clock Tower which turned 100 at 10:22 this morning.Mar 2021 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #100 #10 #22
Not wishing to miss out, here’s my shot from Katoomba at about midday.Jun 2021 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
Don’t mind these two. In order to combat boredom between Wyong, the North Shore and Blacktown, they’ve taken up the spectator sport that is wiper wrestling. Score’s a little close to call though.Jun 2022 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
Move aside Strathatation, my bus appears to be going... there. Where? Yes.Mar 2023 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
About three months ago, I lost my Apple Pencil to a quiet street. Thought it was gone forever but went back a couple of months later and there it was. Exactly where I left it. Cleaned it, charged it and it worked! Still using it to this day.Sep 2019 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/ipad
It's been a little while since I've taken my camera out for a shot of a train; so please indulge me with this shot of the Hydro Express coming back from Medlow Bath today passing Wentworthville.Feb 2022 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
Two Years Ago today: We said goodbye to Carlingford as a Sydney Trains Station. Millennium set M30 was the last train to travel to Carlingford. 48°C day, and we were out on trains!Jan 2022 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #M
So it looks like Sydney Trains have - finally - rolled out a PID update which shows exactly where on the train you should be for stations. Looks like they’re retiring the Short Platform designations.Dec 2020 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
For ten years, I have been hearing stories about 3801, and for ten years I have wanted to experience her in all her glory. Today, that dream became a reality. She’s running shuttles between Central and Hurstville this weekend and once to Rhodes today for a relaunch. She’s back.Mar 2021 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #3801
Love them or hate them, today is the last run of MV Queenscliff as she goes into retirement. An older shot of mine.Oct 2021 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
After 47 years of service - this evening the last S Set ran as L1FC between Olympic Park and Lidcombe - 8 mins late. S135 and her driver posed for a photo for us.Jun 2019 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
This is Brinkley. I was in a car accident yesterday, and I’m Autistic. Brinkley had to make sure I was OK as soon as I got home yesterday. He’s a good boi.Dec 2018 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/aww
Everyone is like “Chrome is chewing all my RAM”. All I tried to do was edit two bytes in a CSS file and XCode did this...Nov 2018 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/softwaregore
Welcome to Orange East Fork, a railway station so desolate, the Broken Hill XPlorer doesn’t even stop here, it goes to Orange and then reverses back and passes Orange East Fork.Feb 2021 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
Today is Day Seventy Two(!) with me not going on trains. Throwback to nicer times, 4204 at Eveleigh preparing to take half of this years Elvis Express to Thirlmere to collect the other half. I miss trains. 😔May 2020 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #4204
Today’s Picturesque Photography Location. Press conference for the demise of the S Sets, at Lavender Bay earlier today. The oldest Goninan S Set car C3001 and B24, the newest train in the fleet!Jun 2019 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
Went on a little trip today out to Lithgow. What a nice array of car stop markers on the platform...Aug 2018 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/nswtrains
After two hundred and twenty three days, yesterday, we prepped our first train since Elvis, and this morning we left to Rylestone. Things are slowly, but surely, getting back to normal.Oct 2020 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
With today being the last train on the Carlingford Line and it being quite likely the last time I will get a train at Clyde, it was time to get some signs of the times.Jan 2020 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
Two Years Ago, today, we said goodbye to Sydney Trains services operating through the Epping-Chatswood Rail Link, which closed to be converted into Sydney Metro. I’ve always admired the architecture in the ECRL, and this photo of mine shows it quite well, without those platform screen doors!Sep 2020 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
A few weeks ago, a painting was posted here of a train carriage I got made up. I went up today, so I thought I’d better get a photo of the actual carriage for context. C3256 in all her glory.Mar 2021 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #3256
One Year Ago: We said goodbye to our last S Sets on the network with the tour of the year. While it has run since, it hasn’t held passengers since this day. Soon, hopefully, as a heritage piece.Jul 2020 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
This station is... Lapstone. A 4 car V Set pauses to pick up the few passengers that were waiting.Aug 2017 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/nswtrains ⋅ #4
Today’s Steam Engine - Beyer-Garratt 6029 on its way to Mount Victoria for the Great Train Weekend. This is the largest operating steam engine in Australia.May 2018 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #6029
What an immaculately restored locomotive - 42103 joined 4204 this weekend to provide shuttles for the Clarendon Classic show, between Richmond and Mulgrave.Sep 2018 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #42103 #4204
When crewing the last S Set... this guard/historian is always dressed for the occasion. Yesterday, he rocked the Public Transport Commission Traffic Branch “Blues” as he crewed the S Set in the parallel run.Jul 2019 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
We are so fortunate to live in a city with a view like this... from a train station, of all places!Nov 2018 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
Going through the droll advertising on B2 when suddenly... heritage photos.Sep 2018 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #2
What was that about a sunrise? Wentworthville station, 06:51amMar 2017 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #06 #51
“We watch the lightning crack over canefields, laugh and think: this is Australia” - WOLO boards out at Blacktown this afternoon.Nov 2018 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/nswtrains
The AK Cars - on their way to Lithgow this afternoon at about 16:30May 2017 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #30 #16
Where everyone gets a bargain - took a road trip to Windsor and found this.Jul 2017 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
The Elvis Express drawing to a close the 2018 Elvis Festival bringing back its Elvises to Sydney.Jan 2018 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney ⋅ #2018
I'm not pleased with this photo but... Mamma Mia; here's the ABBA express returning from Parkes this evening.May 2017 ⋅ s3_gunzel ⋅ r/sydney
