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RE: EL's on Freight Aust. Grain
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Hi
All,
A
small problem occurred with these locos at Pyrenees Loop today as they are not
equipped with ASW Hardware therefore a delay occurred while a few things were
sorted out, 9783 crossed 9784 at Maroona. the Driver a fellow Gunzel said
it was an historic event for EL's on the Portland line and he had never driven
one on the main line so was looking fwd to it, and the second person who just
drives trains for a living said he was going to come to work early just to get a
photo, so the EL's must be doing strange things to us Railway people,
bearing in mind the G classes on the train, upon leaving Maroona 3780 tons on
the train and the train held the section times to the minute. It was the
first time ever for me to issue a Train Order
To Driver of Train Number
9784 , Locomotive Number EL57
A
weird feeling of all the different locos around the state these days. Lost count
of the times I have shown N, S P X G B T classes and even R classes and a
D3 and a K or two, but never an EL, now I have to get out of the chair and
go and see them .
Steve
Dalton
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Dimboola, 19.3.2000, 17 30
At 15 55 today,
EL57-EL54-G519-G542
departed Dimboola bound for Portland leading Freight Australia's
train number 9784 loaded grain.
EL57 and EL54 were both in CFCLA's striking blue and silver colours
G519 was in old V/Line colours
G542 was in the new green colours - didn't catch whether it was lettered
for FV or FA.
Freight Australia has the two EL's on trial, with the aim of hiring four
of them to overcome their current motive power shortage.
Hope to have a couple of photos on my web site by tomorrow night.
yours,
Simon King
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