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Today's historic photo of the day: Broad gauge diesel locomotives BL31, 948, C502 and BL34 run quad light engine at Tailem Bend, SA, January 17 1987.

Tailem Bend is located South-east of Adelaide on the eastern side of the Mount Lofty ranges and on the left bank of the lower reaches of the Murray river. It was a #railway town, being a major depot on the main line to Melbourne.

Four diesel locomotives coupled together negotiate tracks in a railway yard. The first loco is a boxcab style unit painted in green and yellow livery with the sun shining on the side nearest us but the front of its cab in deep shadow. The second unit, also painted in green and yellow livery, is a carbody style unit with a streamlined Alco cab nose. The third unit is a hood unit in blue and gold livery, whilst the fourth unit is the same as the first.
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New paper on the telegraph line is out! It’s a #microhistory of Strangways Springs//Pangki Warruna, exploring its evolution from a #pastoral property to a #telegraph station to a #railway stop, and how these transitions shaped innovation in #Australia 🤩📝

We also highlight the importance of #water in creating and sustaining these innovations (as is the case for technologies of today like #AI 😉).

link.springer.com/article/10.1

SpringerLinkWool, Wires and Water: Technological Transitions at Strangways Springs - International Journal of Historical ArchaeologyThe Strangways Springs artesian mound spring complex in South Australia reveals a layered history in which resources, technology, labor, and culture are significant and changing variables. The site exists in Arabana country, and for thousands of years provided a location for human shelter, artesian waters, and life sustaining resources. The arrival of sheep stations in the “Far North” of South Australia represented a significant rupture and the creation of a new kind of economy based on wool. The establishment of an overland telegraph repeater station brought the latest technological developments to this remote frontier, which had the information of the world available instantly. Other developments such as the railway and wool scouring further secured the importance of locations like Strangways Springs in the continent's colonial infrastructure. This microhistory uses archaeology, archival research, and photography to explore these technological transitions and their impacts at Strangways Springs in the nineteenth century, providing important insights into the sociotechnical nexus that characterized emerging colonial worlds and new forms of modernity in settler Australia.
#openaccess#cybernetics#archaeology
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