Re: SEC (V.R.) F class

[Allan Brown <ajbrown@easy.com.au>]

Les Brown wrote:
> 
> chester@chariot.net.au (Chester) wrote in aus.rail:
> 
> >Can any one tell me what livery V.R. F 211-216 carried in service with
> >the State Electricity Commission?
> >
> I'm not 100% certain but I think it was green a yellow band at a time
> when the VR F's where maroon with a yellow band.
> 
> According to my loco sighting book, I saw SEC 1 at the Newport
> Powerhouse and SEC 2 at the Newport Workshops undergoing maintenance
> there at around about 1966. The Workshops used to service them for the
> SEC.
> 
> Les Brown

There is a good protoype and modelling article on the F class in the
June, 1984 issue of the Australian MODEL RAILWAY Magazine (Issue 126,
Pages 16 - 20). It contains a comprehensive photo spread, albeit in
black and white, including one of SEC1.

Allan Brown