Re: Hamersley Iron SD50

["Timothy Parsons" <tnp4306@hotmail.com>]

Aus loco discussion mailing list

Alan - I couldn't tell from the print in "Trains" whether 6063 still had its 
silver bogies or not - they looked very dark, so it may have been demoted to 
a "paint job" by now!

The main loco news in the UK of relevance to Ausloco (apart from "Pendennis 
Castle") is that the railway here is actually beginning to sound more like 
parts of Australia.  EMD loco's now proliferate on many freight services and 
new high speed Bo-Bo loco's are being introduced for mail train services 
etc.  I was recently standing on a station platform South West of London 
when a container service passed through headed by one of the 1960's built 
(previously Sulzer engined Class 47) Freightliner loco's.  Some of these 
have been recenty re-engined with EMD 645 engines and by closing my eyes 
(and ignoring the sub zero temperature!) I could almost imagine it was a NSW 
422 class racing by on the main South (it is hard to realise that is now 
history as well...).

Whilst the EE loco's in Australia (outside Tasmania) are very rare now (are 
any 500 class still running in SA?), they are even beginning to disappear 
very rapidly over here and must have a very limited life left on the main 
line railway.

If there's anything specific you want to know about things happening here, 
let me know and I can give you more details off list.

All the best,

Tim Parsons
tnp4306@hotmail.com

>From: "alan holding" <charters@river.net.au>
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>To: "Aus loco discussion mailing list" <Ausloco@listbot.com>
>Subject: Re: Hamersley Iron SD50
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:33:15 +1100
>
>Aus loco discussion mailing list
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>G'day Tim,
>
>Yes!  Hamersley Iron was the proud owner of locos that displayed a "LIVERY"
>ol' chap...
>
>What about some loco news from the "mother country"?
>
>See Ya   AH
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Timothy Parsons <tnp4306@hotmail.com>
>To: Ausloco@listbot.com <Ausloco@listbot.com>
>Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 5:20 AM
>Subject: Hamersley Iron SD50
>
>
> >Aus loco discussion mailing list
>
> >Former HI 6063 now in the ownership of lessor National Railway Equipment
>(NREX), running on a Norfolk Southern train in Kentucky.  The loco is still
>very much in the old HI green and yellow colour scheme (or is that 
>livery?!)
>and the lettering "HAMERSLEY IRON" is still clearly visible on the sides of
>the hood.
> >.Tim Parsons
> >tnp4306@hotmail.com

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