Hi,
Just been in photoshop and wipped up some long necked mooing cows.
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Bring on the activities.

Geoff

I did not know this would go to page 2
Please read Ninthnotch's info at the bottom of page 1.
Geoff.

I might add that a vehicle for measuring purposes is a four-wheeled vehicle; bogie vehicles were rated at two or more in some circumstances.

I am testing an activity I am creating at the moment.
i thought oh no worries this will be an easy one, It turns out that it may be quite a hard one to complete.

There are a few pickups and drop offs along the way from bendigo but its the 10 loaded I wagons out of castlemaine combined with the train thats the clincher 20 minutes to Climb chewton bank at 10mph sanding and watching the steam usage like a hawk all the way.
Then with extra pickups at Elphinstone, Malmsbury and Redesdale junction then express to Woodend and reverse into the yard it should really set the men from the boys!
Its a real stuggle all the way from Castlemaine to Woodend which should prove interesting. I may even have to tone it down a bit weight wise as its for fairly advanced steam drivers.

Freight loads for activities.

Keep in mind that Bendigo was the hub for 4 tracks the Swanhill Piangle track, Echuca thence Deniliquin and Moolamein,
Inglewood via Eaglehawk thence Korong Vale Jcn then the Kulwin and Robinvale tracks,
Also the Heathcote thence Kilmore and Wallan Branch.

Bendigo Track freight.
Through trains Down, Empty opens for wheat, loaded oil , coal domestic and Loco , General produce, agricultral equipment, MT and loaded stock and just about anything that a town would require.

Up trains Wheat, fodder, empty oil, empty coal, agricultural produce, fruit carried in TT or T vans. MT and loaded stock, wood, mallee roots, sleepers.

Bendigo its self had the workshops a flour mill, oil siding and cattle yards at Bendigo Nth.

Bendigo yard, Goods shed, loco requirements Coal ect, a large coolstore cannery located to the left of the weighbridge track.

Golden Square Oil siding and coolstore cannery.

Kangaroo flat General Goods and Goods shed.

Harcourt Goods shed and outbound granite and Marble from Mt Alexander.

Castlemaine Thompsons Foundry made locomotives and just about everything else a foundry would make. Large goods shed.
castlemaine yard was a make and breakup point for trains to and from Maryborough and Ararat.

Chewton General goods.

Elphinstone Cattle and general goods.

Maldon General Goods.

Redesdale Jcn put off and pick up wagons for the Branch.

Kyneton general goods ,Oil, Stock feed and cattle it was also a passenger train stabling point.

Woodend Make up break down yard for the Daylesford and Redesdale goods, general freight, timber ect.

thats about all of the specialties I can think of at this moment no doubt there will be more as we go along.

Also the placement of depots.
Bendigo crews ran to Woodend normally but did run to Melbourne on the high priority Passenger tains.

There was a Depot at Castlemaine Running to Bendigo Maryborough Maldon and woodend.

Kyneton had a depot (A sub depot of Woodend) to service the Redesdale line and ran to Woodend, Bendigo and Melbourne.

Woodend was a major depot that ran to Melbourne Bendigo, Daylesford and could also run the Redesdale if required.
This should give a good example of where the trains went and the crews Changed over with one another to return to their respective depots.