Saturday 31 July 2010

J&J Sightings this week





Hi all.

Got Spoornet maroon 34 067 between Brandfort and Theunissen on the pick-up from Bloemfontein. At road over rail bridge in Ararat street, all five RRL Diesels in Welkom station could be seen. 91 02 has it's engine out for repairs in Pretoria.

Near Harrisburg we got 3x orange 6E's on a Northbound load of Lime. Strangely only half of the load was covered with tarpaulins. The Trans Karoo Tourist came past just before Leeudoringstad behind orange E 1394 OFS, friendly hooting from the crew. A 6E bearing down at you in full flight remains quite an awe inspiring sight... Next we got the pick-up at Makwassie shunting FZ's into the silos. The loco was Spoornet maroon E 1404. Between Kingswood and Drie Ruiters we got a single orange 6E on a Northbound load of rail-bolsters.

The Makwassie - Wolmaransstad line looks like it has not seen a train for quite a while, plenty of sand over the level crossings.

SAR maroon E 1615 & E 1610 headed through Theunissen, light locos to Bloemfontein.

Hamilton had several FZ"s and some petrol tankers.

Greetings.
J&J.

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