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

["Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>]

I think a couple of S locos painted up in Santa Fe War Bonnet Super Chief
colour scheme would be the go. Coupled to the shorty type stainless steel
Budd cars we use here (75ft cf 85ft yank) we could pretend its a full scale
model of a Tenshodo streamline train set which I collect.
Cheers
Rod Gayford

"Michael Kurkowski" <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in message
8ED4DD4C8telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net">news:8ED4DD4C8telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net...
> 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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> Michael Kurkowski
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