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This morning (29/04/19) Facebook was kind enough to remind me of where I was 'on this day' during three of Phil's Global Madventures over the last few years. So, I was kind of hoping you might like to remind me where I was on this day in ..............

2012
(https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1x42pUTlekcYBsMSdqrKwT4IyLO6rVd4s)

2013
(https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1FBCaALWI3-P5pSbeXqPEnoHHCIELR60G)

2018
(https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1ERjEPQF4Dhv307IbIUJdRt6BR-R03Piv)

Only one correct guess each in the first 24 hours (if it lasts that long!)

In 2013, I believe you may have been at Cass, partaking of their scenic railroad

It certainly looks like it, but sadly not. Whilst you are on the correct continent, you are on the wrong side.

Are any of them Taunton? :P

 :-X   ;D

The first (2012) looks like an ex-soviet state. Russia or Ukraine?

Yes, I was in Russia.

2013 looks to be on a North American lumber railroad. The loco's needed high tractive effort and adhesion so had vertical cylinders driving horizontal shafts similar to those on GWR railbuses, so each axle was motored (if you'll forgive the term).

Haven't a clue otherwise!

OTC

2013

El Portal Transportation Museum, Foresta Road, El Portal, California, USA.
Shay No 6

2018
Freightlink FJ104/5
Genesee and Wyoming Railway
Northern Territories Australia

 

2013 Spot on.

2018 Can you be a bit more specific with the location? ;)

GWA's Adelaide-to-Darwin service, with freight terminals in Darwin, Katherine and Tennant Creek and also has access to terminals in Adelaide and Alice Springs.
Beyond that I could only guess!

"2018 Can you be a bit more specific with the location?"

Yes. I can. It is a large island  in the Southern hemisphere bounded by the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, The Tasman sea and. . . . . ::)

It is at the last named place on your list - a town called Alice :)

This just leaves 2012, which is 'somewhere in Russia', just to narrow it down  ;)

Tauntomsk?

 :D

It is getting a little Crass now..... ask    and I will reveal   ;)

Krasnoyarsk  ;D

Ah - so it'll be Krasnoyarsk, in front of the railway station?

in Vyazma approximately 200km due east of Moscow

Is it EM728-73 at Kursk, in memoriam?

OTC

нет


Yep! Can't think how you arrived at that answer  :D

Oddly, while I've never been to Krasoyarsk, I was in Vyazma for a few days once. Or rather being "hospitably accommodated" in the party social club out on the by-pass, the town being quarantined due to a Cholera outbreak starting from Odessa. That was way back 1970, when ... but that really is a long story.

This site suggests that, although of the the Krasnoyarsk Railway, it is installed at Ilanskaya station.

https://ru-railway.livejournal.com/1510915.html
Как на трудно догадаться по надписи, Эм-ка с номером 730-73 Красноярской железной дороги установлена на станции Иланская.
“As it is difficult to guess from the inscription, the Em-ka with the number 730-73 of the Krasnoyarsk Railway is installed at Ilanskaya station.”

The Adventures of Katt and Vince at http://trekkingtolleys.blogspot.com have a picture which confirms that ...

Happy to be corrected  :-[  When you've just spent three days and two nights in a Trans-Siberian 'Standard Class' compartment on the top shelf, places seem to blend together and my notes were not particularly good.