Re: The ghost of Tasmania Limited

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

thalytgv@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
<74o933$1gt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>How did AN (now ATN) transport its locomotives to Tasmania? and freight out
of
>Tasmania to mainland? do they use those ones similar to New Zealand's
"Inter
>Islander" boat train?
>
Some of the early loco transfers were done on road trailers on the normal
vehicular ferry operating at the time but a lot of the later ones were done
on conventional cargo ships from Gladstone largely because it was the only
port in Qld that had rail tracks running onto a wharf. The last transfers
from Qld were done on a Tranzrail ferry that was drydocked at Cairncross in
Brisbane for routine work. The locos were lifted from a road trailer onto a
barge in the dock and driven onto the ship. The Sunshine Express has some
interesting articles on this transfer.


Barry Campbell