Saturday 29 May 2010

Quiet day in the Free State


Hi all.

Funny, the strike is over and now there are NO trains to chase ?? When the strike was on there were plenty...

Yesterday we got 2x orange 34's on a load of mielies near Bultfontein.

Today 2x blue 34's 34 093 & 34 037 were seen near Protespan on a short load of FZ's.

All signals were red from Bloemhof to Leeudoringstad. Only at Leeudoringstad we missed a southbound load of ore behind 2x Spoornet maroon 10E's E 10 003 & E 10 047.

The FZ are now cut up at Scuttesdraai.

We have noticed that the orange shunting vans are not on the trains anymore here in our section. On enquiring we were told it is a temporary measure as all the gas-heating equipment has been stolen from the vans and they are awaiting quotations for new sets. If they were not removed for scrap by TFR employees in the first place they would not be getting cold in their vans...

Greetings.
J & J.

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