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Re: Freight trains on the Northern Tablelands

Subject: Re: Freight trains on the Northern Tablelands
From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 04:37:13 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Another Optus Customer
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David Bromage (dbromage@fang.omni.com.au) wrote:
> 5910 is a steal loco owned and operated by RTM. They ran a trip to
> Armidale over the June long weekend in 1997 with the Pullman cars. There
> were shuttles on the Sunday, but FreightCorp forgot to clear the loop at
> Dumaresq. The 59 ran our light early in the morning and worked the empty
> hoppoed back to Armidale. Certainly the most interesting freight I've seen
> on the line!

BTW, I forgot to mention that I have a photo of 5910 passing the 412km
post near Werris Creek. I must scan it one of these days.

Cheers
David

References:
- Re: Freight trains on the Northern Tablelands
  - From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Re: Freight trains on the Northern Tablelands
  - From: "Chris Reardon" <creardon@metz.une.edu.au>
- Re: Freight trains on the Northern Tablelands
  - From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)

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