Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society.

1998-Our 50th Anniversary!

This year we are 50 years old!
To celebrate we held a special anniversary weekend on the 21/22 March 1998.

Saturday 21 March 1998-
This was our usual public running day, except that we opened from 10am. A special display of historic live steam & model engineering was held in the clubhouse. Models on display included 2 1/2 inch gauge locos of yesteryear. 'LBSC' Olympiad & Dyak, & a 4-6-2 four cylinder Princess were early passenger haulers for the Society. A 2 1/2 inch gauge 36 class completed the smallest gauge. There was a 3 1/2 inch gauge 'King', Mona, Tich, Lion, 36 class, P Class & Brittania. In 5 inch part built locos included a 1 1/2 inch scale Shay, South Australian 500 class, Brittania, Sweet Pea & a Baldwin 2-6-0. A finely detailed 55 (K) class, 0-4-2 Ajax, & a well detailed 50 class tender completed the loco display. A 3 inch scale Foden steam wagonoccupied the centre of the room. There were goods trains and a variety of locos to see running as well as our usual heavy passenger hauling. Spectacular train operation with a double headed Pacifics on 6 cars on the inner main, and 59 plus 30T combination on the outer main were just some of the highlights.