Re: Container Wagons from US ?

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Marc Hunt <march@pip.com.au> wrote in message
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> I was poking around Cooks River yard gunzelling GNR 381
> when I noticed some container flats in the "dead road" on
> closer inspection I saw an Amtech proximity transponder
> attached to the side off the wagon and the letters AT&SF
> with Ride Control 9/62 on the bogies.

The key question is what class were they?

If they were Rxxx, then IIRC NR uses Ametech transponders to keep track of
where there wagons are.  I've seen readers at Long Island Jct, Canal Jct &
just south of Wodonga (all in Victoria).  Presumably they are at other
locations too.

IASTR that NR got a stack of 2nd hand US bogies of a higher tonnage? rating
for retrofiting of existing rollingstock.

> Now am I right in the assumption that these container flats
> are ex Santa Fe imports ? or is it all a ghastly
> coincidence ?

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