Features irreplaceable films from 1950 to 1968, mostly in colour and with authentic sound recorded at the time on a large reel to reel recorder, and carefully synchronised during editing. Almost every item on this tape has passed into history!, including spectacular red-hot molten slag tipping at Port Kembla.
Featured are:Emu Gravel Co 1920 & 1919 Porter 0-4-0s, South Bulli 1902 Avonside, Corrimal 1866 Stephenson, South Bulli 1888 Hudswell Clark, Corrimal 2 ft "Burra" 1923 Hawthorn Leslie, ex NSWGR 2535 1884 Beyer Peacock at Bulli, Lysaghts 1921 & 1923 Barclays, Aust Iron & Steel's 5 Porter style 0-6-0 saddle tanks, AI&S diesels, Catherine Hill Bay 1884 Vulcan & 1900 Avonside, NSWR 60 Class 4-8-4+4-8-4 Beyer Garratt, Commonwealth Steel 1923 Barclay, NSWGR 3801 4-6-2, NSWGR 59 class Baldwin 2-8-2, South Maitland Railways 10 class 2-8-2Ts on 4 wheel hoppers, NSWGR 50 class 2-8-0, Richmond Vale Railway R.O.D. and Kitson.
Filmed mainly on 16mm & some 9.5mm. Edited on Umatic.
Approximate run time: 60 minutes.