Re: GM1 and 80 years of the Trans

Roderick Smith (rodsmith@werple.net.au)
23 Oct 1997 10:37:31 GMT

I don't know Terry's source. Mine give:
connection of rails - 17.10.1917
first westbound pass. - 22.10 ex Port Augusta, arr. Kalgoorlie 24.10
first eastbound pass. - 25.10 ex Kalgoorlie.
The 50th anniversary was celebrated over 20 & 21.10.1967.
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Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor


Terry Burton <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
<62cf4l$ldf$2@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...
> The Trans Australian Railway will be 80 years old on the
> 12th October 1997, I wonder if GM1 will "commemorate" this
> event with a run across Australia.
> 
> GM1 covered more miles/kilometres than any other locomotive
> in Australia and was only surpassed by an USA EMD E unit.
> It would be fitting that this loco lead a train across the
> longest straight stretch of track in the world.
> 
> ---- Tell
> Alice Springs NT
> 
> CR-ANR-AN ...Gone but not forgotten.
> Australian Pioneers of the Long Heavy Haul.
> 
>