RE: Inaugural IP locos / Inaugural Sydney-Perth Freight

["Stratton, Chris CP" <Stratton.Chris.CP@bhp.com.au>]

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Sounds very much like the photo on the back cover of the RTM's "Railway Album No7". That photo is by Dennis O'Brien.
Regards,
Chris.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Blayney [mailto:rblayney@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 10:41 AM
> To: ausloco@listbot.com
> Subject: Re: Inaugural IP locos / Inaugural Sydney-Perth Freight
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> On a slightly different tack, while reading Neville Pollard's 
> "The Story of 
> the Sydenham to Botany Railway" I came across a photo of the 
> locos on the 
> first Sydney-Perth Through Freight service. They were 
> 42102(#1)/42105(#1)/42107(#1). The caption with the photo reads :
> 
> "42102, 42105 and 42107 prepare to leave Cooks River with the 
> inaugural 
> Sydney-Perth Through Freight service on Monday 12th January 
> 1970. Due to a 
> union dispute in South Australia the train was routed through 
> Melbourne 
> necessitating a bogie exchange." Photo by KT Groves.
> 
> The photo shows the 3 locos with the head board "BY RAIL 
> across AUSTRALIA" 
> on the front, and a distinguished looking gentleman in a dark 
> suit and 
> banded hat standing by the buffers. Off to the side stand a 
> group of well 
> wishers and a cameraman. Barely visible because of the angle 
> of the shot, 
> painted on the side of 42102 are some words "....? from? EAST 
> to? WEST"
> 
> Was anyone there?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Rob
> 

EOM 

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