The rail lines use to allow the museum to bring it two steam locomotives 3830 and3265 to the site during summer. Before the railway bridge was condemned to heavy loads
It's good that some of the rails leading out of the museum are still there, but I'd like to see them do a bit more to better preserve them, enough so that you could still run a locomotive or railcar to and fro. Not that you ever would, but "just in case" they needed to move the locomotive or any other rail car in or out of the museum. Plus it's preserving the areas history and tells a story.
@@rakeau the rail line has been cut up at the junction near the mortuary station And the railway bridge next to the ABC building has been condemned for locomotives after the museum did not want to pay to repair the bridge. Unfortunately no trains will ever run down that line
@@RowanMangion1976 Yes, I'm sure there's many reasons, but just .. I dunno, people just seem to have a pretty poor stance towards preservation generally .. Even when we're talking about a museum.
MAAS was the overarching name for the organisation that ran the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, so in a way yes, but nowadays, the branding is all “Powerhouse”, including for its Castle Hill and Parramatta sites
I work at the powerhouse 2016-2018 other then the construction wall it doesn’t look like much has changed exterior yet but it is government so work is always slow.
@@neil2402 That was the Museum of Applied Arts And Sciences my brothers, cousins and myself would go to in the 1960's. We loved that museum. Local kids were fascinated by the exhibits there. Good times were had by inquisitive young minds.
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The rail lines use to allow the museum to bring it two steam locomotives 3830 and3265 to the site during summer. Before the railway bridge was condemned to heavy loads
Good work, love your channel! Do you know whether the extension of Goods Line is incorporated into the construction of the new PHM.
The contents of the museum are warehoused at Castle Hill. Cheers!
It's good that some of the rails leading out of the museum are still there, but I'd like to see them do a bit more to better preserve them, enough so that you could still run a locomotive or railcar to and fro. Not that you ever would, but "just in case" they needed to move the locomotive or any other rail car in or out of the museum. Plus it's preserving the areas history and tells a story.
@@rakeau the rail line has been cut up at the junction near the mortuary station
And the railway bridge next to the ABC building has been condemned for locomotives after the museum did not want to pay to repair the bridge. Unfortunately no trains will ever run down that line
@@RowanMangion1976 Yes, I'm sure there's many reasons, but just .. I dunno, people just seem to have a pretty poor stance towards preservation generally .. Even when we're talking about a museum.
@ I agree when I worked at the powerhouse when you asked some questions you were told not to ask again because the answer embarrassed the museum
Was the old building the one that used to be called the "Museum of Applied Atrs and Sciences?"
MAAS was the overarching name for the organisation that ran the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, so in a way yes, but nowadays, the branding is all “Powerhouse”, including for its Castle Hill and Parramatta sites
I work at the powerhouse 2016-2018 other then the construction wall it doesn’t look like much has changed exterior yet but it is government so work is always slow.
Or are you referring to the "technology museum" in Harris St that I used to love visiting as a kid?
@@neil2402 That was the Museum of Applied Arts And Sciences my brothers, cousins and myself would go to in the 1960's. We loved that museum. Local kids were fascinated by the exhibits there. Good times were had by inquisitive young minds.