Re: Cooks river 9/2

["Mike Keelan" <keelo@shoal.net.au>]

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DL47 and DL49 were on -WS2 on Wednesday and again today.
Can anyone explain the difference of  D.O.O. (Driver Only) marker lights, as
fitted to some DLs.
mick
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From: kak 015 <kak015@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 1:49 PM
Subject: Cooks river 9/2


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> Evening all,
> Due to M.U.A. annual picnic day on Sydney waterfront today there was quite
a
> gathering of locos siiting idle at Cooks River this morning around 0730.
> 8031 was stabled near the main line to Botany with a trip train with
> X38/4701 on the same track.
> 8011 was stabled opposite the FCL Transport facility.
> 8181 was shunting the consist for 1827 Blayney freight.
> EL58/EL62 plus 4486 were stabled next to the Seatrans depot.
> On the way home from work I went via Cooks river to see what was on 4SM7
> Austrac which turned out to be EL54/EL51 (which appear to be regular
motive
> power for this train).
> Also present was 1873 which was shunting SM7, EL58/62 &4486 still present,
> likewise 8011, but X38/4701 were nowhere to be seen.
> Then by turning off Princes Highway into Bellevue street and stopping near
> the Salvo's store I could see the 2 DL's in the siding paralleling the
main
> line to Botany (can't remember this siding's name). Front unit was DL49
but
> rear unit was obscured by wagons off 1PS6. As I have to travel from Botany
> to Bargo every day I could not justify waiting until the Boral train was
> unloaded to get rear unit number. The area off Bellevue street provides a
> great view over Cooks River yards, but be careful as a lot of trucks with
> empty containers use this road to get to the offhire depot, and be careful
> not to trespass as most of the adjoining land is private property.
> I actually drive thru Cooks river rail every morning and have been doing
so
> for nearly 15 years so all the shunters etc know of me, plus I work in the
> container shipping industry so I can account for myself if challenged. But
I
> would not recommend that we all attack the place enmasse.
> Regards
> Ivar
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