Trainspotting at Lions Park

We've tracked down one of the last old steam engine's inhabiting a local children's play area in Perth! Thing is, we don't know anything about it-- HELP!! Copyright CoffeeKvetch 2011, All Rights Reserved.

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• H6
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• station house
• Lions Park
• Lions Club
• Perth
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• chainsaw sculptures
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[leokimvideo]

trains seem to be very popular items on the tube..never worked out why

[CoffeeKvetch]

@leokimvideo -- trainspotting and bird-watching! Almost as popular as golfing, fishing and cooking videos-- For whatever reason, I'm thankful (but you're the true master when it comes to the ultimate 'train' video!!).

[geefroy]

im sorry i dont know about the train- but the trees were AMAZING. - its also pretty cool that they set the train up so you can go inside like that. very cool.

[CoffeeKvetch]

@geefroy -- oh, to be a child and be able to play on such things, right? Yeah, those trees are seriously cool-- I've got to see if I can find an event around here that Eddie Freeman will be creating one of these things at... probably not till the warmer weather come's round again, but that'll be worth the wait!

[DumDumShow]

that sculpture is awesome....I don't know much about trains but it is interesting that they plopped that down in a kiddie park. And its real.I see some of that here in long island but the ones on the playgrounds are always fake.

[CoffeeKvetch]

@DumDumShow -- I still can't believe this guy's precision with a chainsaw! I'm finding more and more of these around... mainly in parks which had very old trees that have either been felled by storms or rotted to some degree and need to come down (it's kinda nicer than a great big hole in the ground, huh?) Oh, yeah-- about the train... I loved NY and L.I. for that reason... such great playgrounds with such interesting stuff to climb around (but, yeah, always fake).

[ImatureForever]

hi all

the engine is a very old tender engine which is missing it's tender, it has a lot of pieces missing and is in a very bad way but it's still probably savable and in this day and age i think it is definitely worth restoring to its former glory, I don't know a lot about Australian locomotives mainly because I'm from England, hope this helps

Howl

[DumDumShow]

@CoffeeKvetch yep I didn't want to skip over the train stuff but his sculptures are fricken amazing. Find more i say!..haha.

[RamblinAround]

Very cool....I'll bet the kids love it. Thanks for giving us a look at it.