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Re: [NSW] Whatever happened to 7920?
- Subject: Re: [NSW] Whatever happened to 7920?
- From: The Railway Rasputin II <bob@fastlink.com.au>
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:36:23 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct
- References: <38D446AB.1829D6AB@lucent.com>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:4029
Unless I have misunderstood your post, there is a 79 at thirlmere very
much in working condition.
rgds
Hugh McGuinness wrote:
>
> When I was a nipper (in 1971 or so) I used to catch trains from the
> Blue Mountains to the city every day. I vaguely remember seeing the
> old black shunter 7920 pottering around the yards. It was a 39 ton
> variant of the famous GE '44 tonner' (build at Schenectady if I recall
> the place and spelling correctly).
>
> IIRC, there were originally 4 of these: 7920 - 7923 inclusive, bought
> in the early 50's. 7922 and 7923 were sold to the Commonwealth
> Railways sometime, and 7920 and 7921 were sold in the the early 70's,
> also to CR (IIRC again). What happened then? They have all probably
> been scrapped decades ago, but it would have been nice to think that
> one of them had been saved somewhere.
>
> Thanks
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