I have to admit that I have a bit of a weakness for the commonplace, the everyday, the unremarkable. I love spectacular railway photos but unfortunately I took very few of them. Fortunately though there were masters of the art whose work is breathtaking at times.
Anyway here is photo of a commonplace event in the early '60s, an ex NSWGR 2-6-0 clattering and screeching around with a rake of unbraked coal wagons at Corrimal on the south coast of New South Wales,
It fascinates me that 19th century operations like this were utterly basic to Australia's 20th century war time and post war effort in the New South Wales heavy industrial heartland.
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