Sten- I can't speak for ALCo's in Australia. Not many ALCo's here had an A-1-A. Excluding the late "Century" series, with a few exceptions, most of their "C" trucked units were an ALCo designed variant of the "Tri-Mount." Boxcab E50
Here some Australian made Alcos (I think). They were on the head end of a railfan trip. Almost a Bulldog there! Good days; good times. [ February 21, 2006, 08:14 AM: Message edited by: Flash Blackman ]
They are indeed! 4807 and 4490 are part of the NSW Rail Transport Museum's diesel fleet. I'm probably biased, but I reckon 44's are much better than "Bulldogs"! All the best, Mark.
Hi Mark, welcome to Trainboard. I do indeed work for CityRail, guard 3yrs and counting based at Central.... I still like to see what I was originally qualified for.....
Dont forget the couple thousand KM's of 2 foot gauge cane railways in Queensland! Many private operators would love to haul the tonnages that the cane railways move during the 6 month harvesting season. Invicta Mill at Giru carries over 3,000,000 tonnes/year with a fleet of 13 Locomotives (3 18tonne Comengs, 1 26tonne Baldwin, 2 32Tonne Baldwins, 2 40tonne Ex-QR DH's and 5 38tonne Ex-NSWGR 73 class) and boasts the longest run in the industry (Dalbeg, 119Km to terminus). Cheers, David.
Wow! David, just looked at your Cane Train site pictures - fascinating! What a very model-able operation
When reading your signature, and as a Latin Track magazine subscriber, what amazes me is 30000 tons trains running on metric gauge track, thus with a locomotive and car gauge beeing the same than in North America, thus beeing larger than that we have here in Europe on standard gauge track.... Dominique
Here's some video for the Alcohaulics. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37lmgYcHJ3U"]YouTube - Huge LVRF lashup[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVWPBv3hAKU"]YouTube - Lash 'em up!![/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHEdNM9RGs8"]YouTube - 44211 & 4490[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTl5pgPOiCE"]YouTube - 4490 on Southern Aurora[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QteR0R3w0fY"]YouTube - For ALCOholics[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLiVAosRu-A"]YouTube - Quad 44s tour[/ame] Cheers David
