Here are six 6E1 pulling a freight train

Andreas Umnus · Post by **Andreas Umnus** » 16 Dec 2009, 20:32

In 1987 I took this pictures of a freight train nearby Vryheid.

Jez Smith · Post by **Jez Smith** » 16 Dec 2009, 20:39

Beautiful. 6 locos all in the BEST livery, and all with diamond pantographs I am jealous. I wish I'd met my wife 10 years earlier!!

Jez Smith,
Liverpool, UK

Andreas Umnus · Post by **Andreas Umnus** » 29 Jan 2010, 09:34

I have scanned the next 2 pictures of that train:

Nathan Berelowitz · Post by **Nathan Berelowitz** » 29 Jan 2010, 22:17

That is railroading for you. I can hear the whine of those exhausters!

Greg Hart · Post by **Greg Hart** » 01 Feb 2010, 18:18

hey Andreas,

Looking at the pictures, you are mistaken for Boughton station first station outside Pietermaritzburg .. :-)

Andreas Umnus · Post by **Andreas Umnus** » 02 Feb 2010, 00:47

Nathan, yes it was really exciting to see for the first time of my life a train hauled by six engines.

Greg, thank you for the pictures. It really seems to be the same place.
I was just searching for the station (Boughton) at Google Earth but unfortunately I can't find it.
I thought I took the pictures near Vryheid. So thanks for telling me that I was wrong.

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