> a sighting from Murray Bridge on Saturday was 8 (yes 8) light loco's,
> all in V/Line livery heading towards Melbourne.
>
> Any ideas? Spoke with a train controller, he thought maybe it was the
> C's headed for scrapping :(
>
This is a regular movement that has been occurring every Saturday evening
- usually departing very late in the evening from Adelaide. It has the
train number AD1 (D=Dimboola) and conveys locos that have come to Adelaide
on V/Line Freight (MA2), Toll (MA4) and SCT (MP9) services on Friday
afternoon and Saturday Morning.
On occassions I have seen this movement with freight loading attached and
it has been called AM2.
Saturday's movement of AD1 was much earlier than I've seen it in the past
- at Belair 5.35pm.
The locos were G519/G528/G542/G536/G531/G537/G530/X38. Only the first two
were working. I suspect that X38 must have arrived in Adelaide, as second
unit, on Friday on MA2.
The s.g. motive power situation for VLF must be tight enough to warrant
this movement.
At least two of the Gs came back to Adelaide on Sunday (519 & 542) on the
Toll or SCT services from Melbourne - probably attached at Dimboola to
these trains to provide enough power for the crossing of the Adelaide
Hills.
So that must have been the eight locos seen at Murray Bridge - the C's
were still rusting quietly at Islington Workshops when I last checked.
MH