Silver City Comet Broken Hill Railway museum NSW

The silver City Comet ran to Broken Hill in Western New South Wales from Parkes in the East on standard gauge. A power car and some passenger cars are now represented in the Sulphide Street Railway Museum at Broken hill. The museum was once the end of the line station for narrow gauge passenger trains from the state of South Australia. This railway from the SA - NSW border was privately operated due to compications of South Australian Railways running a railway into New South Wales. Accordingly, this railway section was known as the Silverton Tramway. The narrow gauge railway was built to carry ore from the mines at Broken Hill to the smelters at Port Pirie South Australia. This video is composed of pictures taken of the Silver City Comet which was later transported to the museum for display,and comprises a quick look of the train starting with the engine room in the power car. There are six engines in the power car. They are all General Motors diesel engines. There are two four cylinder generating sets, one each end, which provided electricity for the air conditioning, lighting and the dining car section. These smaller engines, unlike the main engines, are arranged across the car. The other four much larger engines used for traction, are in two banks of two. Each set of two is arranged back to back with one engine being mounted lower than the other so that each can feed into a gear train with the combined power of two engines then ultimately turning drive shafts, with one drive shaft from each bank of two engines. Each of the drive shafts is connected to the inner axle of each of two bogies while the outer, or front axle was not powered. There are views of the driving cab, the main engine room, underneath the power car showing the drive method, followed by views of the smaller generators. The gear train boxes, one of which was between each pair of main engines is also shown from varying angles. There were originally five of these power cars built and some twelve passenger cars.

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[reidgck]

@jslasher1 It would be good restored and running between Broken Hill and Menindee as an attraction.

[jslasher1]

This iconic train is in a less than satisfactory condition in the museum in Broken Hill.