Re: A little touch of Santa Fe in Australia (long)

[Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>]

James Brook said in message <389FDC4B.21580B08@ozemail.com.au>, I
therefore quote: 

>Michael Kurkowski wrote:
>
>> 961 is sitting nice and lonely along with some other rare-used locos
>> at Dry Creek SA. It is currently painted in the Explorer livery, seen
>> on SRV's K cars, looking pretty rough at the moment though. I think
>> ASR use it as a trailing unit occasionally. God help us if we see this
>> gem painted in ASR livery (I think it's the last operational 930
>> remaining). 
>
>I read somewhere that it failed a few months ago while operating as a
>trailing unit on a freight over the Adelaide hills. I'm not sure if
>they've repaired it yet. I think the livery on 961 looks worse than the
>livery on SRV's K cars! 
>:-)

I now have a very crummy 300dpi flatbed scan of a slide, of it at:

http://www.netstra.com.au/~mk/scans/961.jpg

Other scans are now online as well if anyone is interested (slightly better 
quality, slides scanned on a 600dpi flatbed using a ceiling fluoro as the 
light source)...

Chasing the 9137 from Geelong-Ballarat:

http://www.netstra.com.au/~mk/scans/bal001.JPG
http://www.netstra.com.au/~mk/scans/bal002.JPG
http://www.netstra.com.au/~mk/scans/bal003.JPG

Sprinter at Flinders Street road #9a (yes, the conductor is waving at me):

http://www.netstra.com.au/~mk/scans/fss001.JPG

PBR locos at Menzies Creek:

http://www.netstra.com.au/~mk/scans/pbr001.JPG

Regards
Michael

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