Re: Freight trains on the Northern Tablelands

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Chris Reardon (creardon@metz.une.edu.au) wrote:
> Just to check I got all the info right.....Freight Rail comes up here about
> every 3 weeks or so, using 48 Class trains to haul the stuff up here and
> back, but 59's? (what the hell do they look like, they aren't on any web
> site i've seen so far) are used as well.

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!

Cheers
David