Re: [VIC] Out of Puff at Puff!! (Slightly OOD)

["B." <b.spammed@four12.net>]

"James Shugg" <jshugg@MailAndNews.com> wrote in message
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>> ===== Original Message From "Adam Dunning" <adamdunning@start.com.au>
=====

>> Slightly OT, but National Logistics Coordinators, the operators of the
>> Yallourn - Morwell coal railroad have closed this rail road and replaced
it
>> with trucks.  As far as i know, they have 4 DH's which came via Cooks
>> Construction.  I know they don't want the locos because they recon the
>> trucks are cheaper.  If interested talk to NLC.

> I think the 4 DH's might actually be Gemco built 4wDH locos that were
built
> in the 80s for hydro tunnel construction in Tasmania. After that work
finished,
> and a period in storage, they went to the Interconnecting Railway at
Yallourn,
> and worked there (with limited success apparently) until its closure last
> year. Recent issues of Light Railways magazine have featured photos of
these
> little locos.

> According to Locopage at
> http://locopage.railpage.org.au/private/secv_cc.html
> 4 of the 6 ex-QR DH's went to sugar mills, anyone know about the other 2?

Still down there AFAIK.

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